re-election next year. if you include another dozen that won by whole districts that hillary clinton lost by fewer than five points, those are serious numbers. right. that s part of why democrats went all out on this georgia 6 election. part of it is they could use candidates to run in those districts you just mentioned. they need strong democrats to challenge incumbent republicans if they hope to ride what could be an anti trump wave in 2018. neil: do they hope to ride on that by flipping 24 seats? that s what they would need to do. i m wondering if part of that thinking is to target these states where republicans are vulnerable or might want to quit or think of not running in that event. that s absolutely going to be their plan. democrats wanted this race to be symbolic for other candidates who might jump in, maybe scare
better than $23 million. most of that coming from outside of the district and the state of georgia itself. to gerri willis when has been crunching the numbers. hey, gerri. well, this election has been compared to no other because it s the most expensive in u.s. history. more than $50 million invested. at stake a suburban atlanta seat that used to belong to tom price. the district has consistently voted republican for decades. the last time the seat was in democratic hands, 1946. white house spokesman sean spicer this afternoon discounted questions about whether the race is a referendum on trump s administration. the numbers, the money, astonishing. according to open secrets, the winning house candidate spent $1.3 million in the most recent
neil: you heard about the money going to the georgia congressional race. more than $50 million. the challenger has been trying to take a republican lock on that seat for the better part of three plus decades. more money from outside that district, from outside that state by far than from inside. why do you think that is? after this.
backlash against people coming in fromming from connecticut, new york, from elsewhere in the president trying to capitalize on that saying the super liberal democrat and the georgia congressional race wants to protect criminals and raise taxes exclamation point trying to paint him into a box. that sort of tactic is very familiar here in massachusetts where the tea party rose earlier in 2010, we saw this with scott brown. a lot of people were criticizing all these ought of state people funding his campaign. that was a very big moment for the right. it was sort of a moment where you saw well, maybe later in 2010, could be a very big year for democrats. as kasie mentioned it s almost impossible to poll a special election for congress in such a small area and surprises happen all the time but i think right now the wisdom says jon ossoff is not likely to get 50bers. if that happens, he will go to a runoff and likely not win.
welcome back to hard ball, last week democrats came surprisingly close to capturing a traditionally red congressional seat out in kansas, well, tomorrow democrats have a better chance at flipping a republican red seat down in georgia sixth congressional district, that s in the northern suburbs of atlanta which was left vacant by hhs tom price. 18 people are for that seat, 11 republicans fought democrats two independents, all eyes are on the democratic frontrunner, and candidate john ossoff. he s aware that this election is referendum on him weighed in the super liberal democrat in the georgia congressional race wants to protect criminals, allow illegal immigration, it s not that he s the best advocate. he won the district by 1 poi.5 points. by comparison mitt romney won that seat by 24 points back in