Posted on 06/21/2017 5:21:23 AM PDT by madprof98
On the other hand, a Handel win is not anywhere near the victory/mandate/endorsement the Trump team will claim it to be. This is a Republican district. The only reason it was close: A lot of Republicans voted for a Democrat. So, the GOP victory on the merits is pretty limited. Spending enough money to scald a wet mule (to borrow a phrase from Haley Barbour) to hold on to a district that Tom Price (Trumps HHS secretary) and Newt Gingrich held is not a sign of Republican health.
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One quibble... it wasn't a primary, it was a special election. Whomever won 50%+1 would have won outright. Because so many Republicans ran, Ossoff almost won it in the special election. Because Republicans diluted their vote, the race was forced into a run-off that should never have happened.
-PJ
Yeh National Review is an unnamed coconspirator. :-)
Jonah Goldberg is an as*hole and dumber then his mom.
It's called "Whistling past the graveyard."
Had Ossoff won by .01% it would have been trumpeted (sorry) as a "TOTAL repudiation" of President Trump's policies.
NATIONAL REVIEW SUCKS.
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