Ga. Republican, At Center Of Planned Parenthood Controversy, Back In Spotlight
Karen Handel kept her distance from Trump in the Georgia special election, but her efforts to strip Planned Parenthood of funding at the Komen Foundation could keep liberals fired up.
If you thought it was odd that a special election in the Atlanta suburbs got so much national attention, you haven't seen anything yet.
So far, much of the focus has been on Democrat Jon Ossoff — and with good reason. The Democratic base rallied around him and made the election a referendum on President Trump.
In some ways, it worked. Ossoff came within 3,648 votes of winning the right-leaning congressional seat outright in Georgia's 6th Congressional District. He needed 50 percent to do that; he got just over 48 percent. That outperformed where he was polling, and was better than the Democrat who ran for Congress in 2016 against then-incumbent Tom Price, who vacated the seat to
