By: Alex Seitz-Wald Ossoff took 48 percent of the vote in the unusual 18-candidate race, according to the Georgia Secretary of State, but he needed 50 percent to avoid a runoff. Now, the race has simplified, with Trump and the GOP coalescing behind Handel and Democrats and the so-called “resistance” behind Ossoff. The two candidates […]
By: Patricia Murphy In the days after Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, liberals in America were depressed, despondent, and asking themselves what to do next. David Nir, the political director of the liberal blog Daily Kos, had an answer and that answer was Jon Ossoff. Nir and the Daily Kos team had been crunching […]
By: David R. Cohen, Michael Jacobs, Patrice Worthy, & Sarah Moosazadeh The outcome keeps alive the possibility of Georgia’s first Jewish congressman since Democrat Elliott Levitas lost a bid for a sixth term in 1984. Voters in the 6th, which sweeps from East Cobb through North Fulton into North DeKalb and covers as much as […]
By: Patricia Murphy Donald Trump’s name may not have been on the ballot in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District Tuesday night, but the special election to replace Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price in Congress was all about Donald Trump. Democrat Jon Ossoff, whose campaign was fueled locally and nationally by anti-Trump anger, finished first […]
According to Federal Election Commission filings, Ossoff raised $8.3 million for his campaign through the end of March — an astronomical sum for a U.S. House election. He’s spent $6.1 million. The three most prominent Republican candidates combined raised less than $800,000, with $464,000 for Handel, $217,000 for Gray and $108,000 to Moody. (Gray and […]
This Tuesday, Georgians in the 6th Congressional District will head to the polls in one of the most high-profile House races in recent history. Although 18 candidates are running, the race has evolved into a clear struggle between two distinct sides: the grassroots versus the corporate special interests. On one side, the grassroots have enthusiastically […]
By: Daniel Strauss & Elena Schneider ACROSS THE MAP — Quick takes from across the country: SENATE Endorsements: End Citizens United backed three Democratic incumbents: Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Jon Tester (Mont.). Maine: GOP Gov. Paul LePage “said Thursday he is ‘strongly considering’ running against Sen. Angus King in 2018 and that […]
By: Mary Kilpatrick Brown cashes in: “U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown’s campaign flexed its financial muscle Wednesday, announcing it raised an impressive $2.4 million in the first three months of 2017,” cleveland.com reporter Jeremy Pelzer writes. “The sizable haul, the most Brown has ever raised in an election off-year quarter, is almost double the $1.35 million […]
By: Simone Pathe Three Democratic senators from states carried by President Donald Trump last fall have earned the backing of an influential liberal political action committee. End Citizens United announced its support Thursday for the re-election campaigns of Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Jon Tester of Montana, in its first endorsements of the 2018 cycle. […]
By: Maryam Mohamed Democrats are very reluctant to approve Gorsuch due to his extremely conservative ideology. “We believe that, what Republicans did to Merrick Garland was worse than a filibuster,” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said. However, not all party leaders are opposed to Gorsuch’s nomination. Republican Senator of Nevada Dean Heller, believes that Gorsuch […]
