Georgia Republican: Arlington baseball shooting is good for Karen Handel
MONDAY, JUN 19, 2017 09:34 AM EDT
Republicans in Georgia are trying to link Jon Ossoff to any and all violent incidents — real or perceived
MATTHEW ROZSA
The special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District just took a turn for the ugly, as Republicans are seeking to turn last week’s tragedy at a Virginia ballfield into a get-out-the-vote message: A GOP candidate getting shot is good news for Republican candidate Karen Handel.
“I think the shooting is going to win this election for us,” a Georgia Republican Party chairman said during a rally for Handel Saturday. According to the Washington Post, Brad Carver kept going, seeming to indicate this was a good thing to say.
< Because moderates and independents in this district are tired of left-wing extremism. I get that there’s extremists on both sides, but we are not seeing them. We’re seeing absolute resistance to everything this president does. Moderates and independents out there want to give him a chance. Democrats have never given this president a chance. >
Meanwhile, an ad from a Republican Super PAC linked Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff to both the recent shooting of Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise and Kathy Griffin’s controversial art piece showing a decapitated and bloodied Donald Trump head. It attempts to link Ossoff to both of these unrelated events by arguing that they’re all part of the “unhinged left.”
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