we do say good morning to earn. i m kendis gibson. and i m erielle reshef. the special election that captivated president trump and others is headed to a runoff. john ossoff came close to an outright victory and janai norman is tracking it. reporter: good morning. that seat became vacant when president trump tapped representative tom price to lead the department of health and human services. some believe this could serve as an early gauge for republicans ahead of midterm elections. democrats hoped for a knockout in the battle royale over georgia s 6st congressional district looking for the one-two punch to take the long republican held seat and offer a sign of strength among voters who oppose president trump. president trump embarrasses our country or acts recklessly i ll hold him accountable. reporter: but young democrat john ossoff came up short against a failing to reach the 50% threshold to win the 18-candidate primary outright. now headed tore a june runoff a
we do say good morning to earn. i m kendis gibson. and i m erielle reshef. the special election that captivated president trump and others is headed to a runoff. john ossoff came close to an outright victory and janai norman is tracking it. reporter: good morning. that seat became vacant when president trump tapped representative tom price to lead the department of health and human services. some believe this could serve as an early gauge for republicans ahead of midterm elections. democrats hoped for a knockout in the battle royale over georgia s 6st congressional district looking for the one-two punch to take the long republican held seat and offer a sign of strength among voters who oppose president trump. president trump embarrasses our country or acts recklessly i ll hold him accountable. reporter: but young democrat john ossoff came up short against a splintered gop field failing to reach the 50% threshold to win the 18-candidate primary outright. now headed
Hardened ideology and he s held withheld any prospect for economic recovery as he routinely places his own political fortunes and his own re-election plans above the interests of the american people. look no further than his denial of building the keystone to pipeline. that was all about his re-election. nothing to do with energy independence for the american people. his liberal reign will end and the american people and our economy will finally be free. because you see, what we need is a candidate in the likeness and image of a ron nall reagan who has the bold differences necessary to take on a barack obama. what we need is a fearless conservative, one with no compromises on their record, on spending, on health care, on crony capitalism, on defending america, on standing with our ally israel. on securing our border from illegal immigrants or on
He is guarded and guided by his hardened ideology and he s held withheld any prospect for economic recovery as he routinely places his own political fortunes and his own re-election plans above the interests of the american people. look no further than his denial of building the keystone to pipeline. that was all about his re-election. nothing to do with energy independence for the american people. his liberal reign will end and the american people and our economy will finally be free. because you see, what we need is a candidate in the likeness and image of a ron nall reagan who has the bold differences necessary to take on a barack obama. what we need is a fearless conservative, one with no compromises on their record, on spending, on health care, on crony capitalism, on defending america, on standing with our ally israel. on securing our border from
newt gingrich, 13%, rick perry, 10% and michele bachmann at 5%. let s go to chris matthews at the polk county convention center in des moines. rach, it looks like something could be developing which would be fascinating for the obama people and interesting for the republicans. the normal course of events is when you go on the attack against another opponent, for example, if gingrich is still part of this race coming in fourth tonight at a decent 13% after all that s happened, he goes out with a knife against romney this saturday night on the abc debate again and then on sunday morning with david gregory on meet the press in that debate and go after hammer and tongue all the issues of abortion, rip the scab off issue, if he does that who is the beneficiary? not newt. the beneficiary is santorum. and that s fascinating because that opens up the republican party like a cantaloupe then you have a situation where romney suffers from the fact that s been he ll be bleeding by