robert s point about the other candidates in georgia is fascinating. what is trumpism and how deep does it run in american politics. the candidates who have associated themselves most closely with trump and trumpism actually did not do well tonight at all. the candidate if there s a runoff is an establishment type republican. you re also seeing what are republicans then doing when they re asked about donald trump? are they going to throw themselves across the tracks for donald trump? and they re not. on my radio show i was talking with paul ryan and i asked him are you ever going to break with criticize donald trump if he crosses the line, for example, when donald trump said i don t think bill rifle did anything wrong. i asked him, what do you think? his answer was, well, i hadn t heard this story, i don t read the new york times. what i m reading there is that right now they don t want to
the host of indy advisable charlie sykes. casey hunt, set the scene, set the stakes. how do democrats claim victory with less than 50%, how do they make the case for just how red this district is? reporter: brian, the expectations game here, i think got a little bit out of hand. more democrats and this 50% threshold. you can see and kind of hear behind us that this party is still going strong. it s a bigger party i saw for a lot of the republican presidential announcements that i went to over the course of the 2016 campaign. they ve been trickling out the door a little bit as we wait for the final returns in this race. right now ossoff is holding steady, just over 50%. we re anticipating that the vote still out is likely to bring that number down below 50% and lead to a run off.
district. these are the kind of districts, the kind of candidates that we re going to be talking about. it s not going to be those more conservative places. roint one more quick thing. i picked up in this room behind me, this runoff, if it becomes a runoff, it could be a race. as casey was saying, this is tom price s seat. democrats see this as a target. the guy the official who s going after obama care, the signature act of president obama came from this district and the they want to make it a fight if it s a runoff. good point there. couple of points here. to casey s point ask senator ayad how tricky it is when you re asked about the guy at the top of the ticket, in this case donald trump. casey talked a little bit about joni ernst.
agree bad for jobs. say no. 18 minutes later he was back at it. republicans must get out today and vote in georgia 6, force run off, an easy win. democrat ossoff will raise your taxes. then again this afternoon just learned that jon ossoff who s running for congress in georgia doesn t even live in the district. republicans, get out and vote. here s how the candidate answer that is criticism. i grew up in this district. i grew up in this community. of course no one knew there was an election coming. i ve been by emory university about ten minutes down the road supporting my long-time girlfriend allysha while she concludes her medical training. president trump carried the district by a thin margin. it s a largely prosperous district with a high percentage