Georgia House Race Heads to Runoff as Democrat Gains in GOP Area
- Ossoff staged strong performance for long-held Republican seat
- Office vacated by Trump cabinet pick for HHS secretary
Georgia House Race Heads to Runoff
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Democrat Jon Ossoff turned in an unexpectedly strong performance Tuesday in the special election to fill a longstanding Republican U.S. House seat in Georgia, emerging as the top vote-getter by far.
Ossoff, a filmmaker and former congressional aide, rode a strong backlash to President Donald Trump in the race to fill Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s former House seat, but appeared to fall just short of the 50 percent needed to win outright. As of 1 a.m. New York Time, he had 48.3 percent of the vote, with almost 70 percent of the ballots counted.