The costliest congressional election in U.S. history was headed for a photo finish on Tuesday as Democrats hoped dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump would help them win a suburban Atlanta seat that has been held by Republicans since the 1970s. Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel have both focused on local concerns, but national…
Several weeks before the April primary for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District seat, the editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times invited readers to use the newspaper, particularly its website, as a forum “to talk about the merits of the candidates and the needs of the district, the state and the nation.” Readers since then have responded…
With Georgia’s special House election one day away, a Trump-supporting professional “social media guru” is flooding Twitter with grass roots-looking messages against Democrat Jon Ossoff. Accounts related to a man named Robert Shelton, a.k.a. @RobertsRooms, have flooded hashtags about the election with anti-Ossoff messages, Politico reported. “DON’T VOTE FOR #NEVEROSSOFF,” one wrote early Friday morning….
As Jon Ossoff races to a close finish in the special election for a Georgia House seat, one Republican official says the upstart’s chances will be thwarted by last week’s shooting against congressional Republicans. “I think the shooting is going to win this election for us,” Brad Carver, the party chair in the state’s 11th…
As politicos eagerly anticipate the results in Georgia’s House special election on Tuesday, internal Republican surveys are causing GOP indigestion as they point to an unlikely victory by Democrat Jon Ossoff. Polls commissioned by right-wing groups show Ossoff up several points on GOP opopnent Karen Handel in the historically-red district, Politico reported Friday. An Ossoff…
Both sides in Georgia’s special election — the most expensive House race in American history — have reported violent threats made against them. Democrat Jon Ossoff issued a statement Thursday saying that threats against the campaign have intensified in recent days and were reported to police. Ossoff did not describe the nature of the threats….
In a race as close as the congressional runoff between Jon Ossoff and Karen Handel, a few hundred votes can make a big difference. That’s one of the reasons cybersecurity experts are raising alarms about possible hacking into Georgia’s voting system. “I was absolutely stunned, just the sheer quantity of files I had acquired,” Logan…
Jon Ossoff, the Democrats’ hope in a Georgia House race, has been trying to move to the center in a bid to woo moderate voters, promising to fight income tax increases and vote against single-payer healthcare. “I’m not that interested in labels or litmus tests,” Ossoff told Politico. “I’m interested in delivering results that requires…
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