{"id":304406,"date":"2017-04-19T13:50:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T12:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/republicans-avoid-big-loss-by-forcing-runoff-in-ga-house-race\/"},"modified":"2017-04-19T13:50:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T12:50:33","slug":"republicans-avoid-big-loss-by-forcing-runoff-in-ga-house-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/republicans-avoid-big-loss-by-forcing-runoff-in-ga-house-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans avoid big loss by forcing runoff in Ga. House race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/georgia-house-race-stokes-gop-identity-crisis--and-opportunity-for-democrats\/2017\/04\/18\/a2231a48-242f-11e7-b503-9d616bd5a305_story.html?utm_term=.5afdfa9327b2\"><strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/a><br \/>April 19, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"dateline\">ATLANTA \u2014<\/span>\u00a0Republicans avoided an embarrassing defeat in a House race in Atlanta\u2019s conservative suburbs by forcing a runoff against Democrat Jon Ossoff, who captured the most votes with a groundswell of grass-roots activism and millions in donations fueled largely by antipathy to President Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unofficial returns showed that Ossoff had earned less than 50\u00a0percent of the vote, the threshold needed to declare an outright victory. Instead, with 48.3\u00a0percent, Ossoff was headed to a runoff against Republican Karen Handel, the top GOP vote-getter in a special election to replace Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price in Georgia\u2019s 6th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement early Wednesday, Ossoff acknowledged that he had fallen short.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is already a remarkable victory,\u201d he said. \u201cWe defied the odds, shattered expectations, and now are ready to fight on and win in June.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ossoff could find it difficult to sustain the momentum he witnessed this past week in a traditionally Republican district that has been in GOP hands since 1979. Although Handel had earned 19.7\u00a0percent of the vote with 88 percent of precincts reporting, in a runoff she is widely expected to rally Republican voters who had divided their votes among 11 GOP candidates in Tuesday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Trump quickly took credit for the likely runoff, tweeting after midnight: \u201cDespite major outside money, FAKE media support and eleven Republican candidates, BIG \u201cR\u201d win with runoff in Georgia. Glad to be of help!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/georgia-house-race-stokes-gop-identity-crisis--and-opportunity-for-democrats\/2017\/04\/18\/a2231a48-242f-11e7-b503-9d616bd5a305_story.html?utm_term=.5afdfa9327b2\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Wednesday, April 19, 2017  at  5:24 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/republicans-avoid-big-loss-by-forcing-runoff-in-ga-house-race.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p>        <!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n --><\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/republicans-avoid-big-loss-by-forcing-runoff-in-ga-house-race.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington PostApril 19, 2017 ATLANTA \u2014\u00a0Republicans avoided an embarrassing defeat in a House race in Atlanta\u2019s conservative suburbs by forcing a runoff against Democrat Jon Ossoff, who captured the most votes with a groundswell of grass-roots activism and millions in donations fueled largely by antipathy to President Trump. Unofficial returns showed that Ossoff had earned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-304406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}