You did it, girl [cheering] ms. Handel there are literally hundreds of people to thank and scores of elected officials and gop leaders who put their confidence in me right from the very beginning, and i will probably miss a few but there were several who stepped up right from day one, including my very good friend, bob ott, joanne burrow, my hometown mayor, jerry wood. [applause] handel and i need to on april 18 iw said to everyone that this was going to be a very, very tight race. It was going to be contentious, and it was going to require all hands on deck. That is exactly what we had. [cheering] ms. Handel from all of the others who were the gop competitors in the primary, including several who are here tonight. I see bob gray. Thank you for your help. [cheering] ms. Handel every Single Member of the republican georgia congressional delegation, our constitutional officers, the legislators, governor and first lady, senator purdue, senator isakson and my very close friend, senator sac
They raised a ton of money significantly outspent republicans. This was the best shot democrats in these special elections to try to make a victory in the trump era. And they came up short, which now of course, is going to create a whole series of questions about how the Democratic Party should run in the year of donald trump because they came up short here. Whats interesting is that breaking news, a republican wins in georgia it shouldnt be breaking news. This is the way it should happen. But the fact that it was so close at least it appeared in the polling and in the results, as well. The results are really close. What does this say about the state of affairs especially the trump, is there a mandate for donald trump . Will he keep his support . Will it stay the same . Are democrats looking at there as necessarily a loss or they got close and maybe theres hope for them in the midterms . I dont think there are moral victories here. The democrats lost this race. That is a loss. They wen