Tomorrow there'll be a special election to decide who controls the seat vacated by Tom Price, who is now Health and Human Services secretary and apparently dodging a federal investigation into his insider trading.
There will be a long list of candidates on the ballot, both Democrats and Republicans, and the top two move on to a runoff in June, unless one of them can hit 50%. The only one with even a remote chance of hitting 50 is, surprisingly, the Democrat, Jon Ossoff. Even though Tom Price won last time around by 24 points, Trump only one by less than two. The leading Republican is Karen Handel. You may recognize the name: she's the Susan G. Komen official who somehow managed to blow up the Race for the Cure by trying to inject her rabid anti-abortion politics into the cancer research community. Now she makes a career running for office and losing repeatedly. (Here's Laura Bassett's great 2012 story on her role in that debacle.)
National Democrats had tried to ignore the race, but grassroots donors around the country pumped so much money into the race in small increments they had no choice. He's raised more than $9 million from all over the country.
I'll be down in suburban Atlanta for the election tomorrow and will file a dispatch from there. My preview on the race, including interviews with several newsletter readers, is here and pasted below after the ad.
Meanwhile, a white supremacist who assaulted a black woman at a rally in Kentucky during the campaign is claiming in court that he did so only on the instructions of Donald Trump, barking from the stage. Story by Ken Vogel here.
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These 3 People Show Why Anti-Trump Tide Runs Against The GOP In Georgia's Special Election
If Republicans on Tuesday manage to lose the suburban Atlanta congressional seat they have held consistently since the late 1970s, they can pin some of the blame on Sandy Rosenberg, a longtime resident of Marietta, Georgia.
The House seat was recently vacated by Tom Price, who is now President Donald Trump's health and human services secretary. Before that, it was held by Johnny Isakson, now a senator. Before Isakson, it was the home base of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Rosenberg, a lifelong independent, was a volunteer making campaign calls for Isakson, and was later a strong supporter of Price. Federal records show she gave $200 to Isakson back in 2004. Two years later, she gave $250 to Max Burns, then a one-term GOP congressman in a nearby district.
In the Republican primary in 2016, she cast her ballot for Ohio Gov. John Kasich. On Nov. 4, just a few days before the 2016 presidential election, her long history of Republican activism came to an end, and she wrote a $100 check to Democrat Hillary Clinton.
"During the election, I was called by Isakson's office and invited to attend a fundraiser," Rosenberg said. "I told them that I would not vote for Isakson this go round because he has endorsed Trump."
Rosenberg has known Isakson for years, and rejecting him wasn't an easy decision. But Isakson and Tom Price were just fine without her. Price went on to win re-election in November by some 24 points. But the man who was the reason Rosenberg had switched sides, Donald Trump, only beat Clinton in the district by less than 2 percentage points.
Rosenberg spent election night in tears, and her 16-year-old daughter cried on the way to school the next day, dreading the prospect of facing a pro-Trump teacher who'd been relentlessly stumping for his man. Rosenberg called the school counselor to make sure her daughter would be okay.
When Trump tapped Price and a special election was called for his vacant congressional seat, Rosenberg jumped into the game. "I am now canvassing for Jon Ossoff because we need to elect a Democrat to send a message to Republicans in Congress that it is not acceptable to bow down to Trump," she said.
Trump also has focused on the race, tweeting an attack on Democratic candidate Ossoff Monday with his trademarked misspellings and errant capitalization.
The super Liberal Democrat in the Georgia Congressioal race tomorrow wants to protect criminals, allow illegal immigration and raise taxes!
Rosenberg in late February met Ossoff, who had become the leading Democratic candidate by virtue of his endorsement by civil rights legend John Lewis and Hank Johnson, both Georgia congressman and former bosses of Ossoff's from his Capitol Hill days. Rosenberg played an extra in a campaign commercial Ossoff was taping that day, and has been canvassing for him ever since.
The week before meeting Ossoff, she had ventured into what had previously been enemy terrain, attending a meeting of Cobb County Democrats. Usually a sleepy affair, party officials were expecting attendance to surge to about 200. Instead, 450 people showed up, Rosenberg said at the time, and a new meeting place had to be found.
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