There is virtually no one left undecided in Georgia's 6th, the most expensive House race in history
Trump looms over Georgia special election, a proxy battle for 2018
By Karen Tumulty June 10 at 9:35 AM
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — As the most expensive House race in history heads into its final full week, there is one name that is rarely mentioned by the two people who are running. But President Trump looms over everything.
As Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff was making his way through a retirement community here on a recent weekday, a woman named B.J. Mix gripped his hand and told him: “When you get there, give Trump hell.”
Later that afternoon, in Republican contender Karen Handel’s home precinct in Roswell, Dominick Scartz opened his front door to the latest in a parade of election canvassers to show up on his porch.
“The Republicans don’t want to lose a seat and start a trend,” Scartz said. “But Trump gives everybody an opening. We all know that, even though we voted for him.”
Under normal circumstances, this special election to replace Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price in Congress should not even be competitive. Once represented by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the affluent district on the northern outskirts of Atlanta has been in Republican hands for nearly four decades.
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