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Voters began casting ballots on Tuesday in the special election ... . FILE - This May 14, 2014 file photo shows Karen Handel speaking to a reporter in Roswell, Ga.
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Democrat leads early returns in Georgia congressional race
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: Democratic candidate for Georgia's Sixth Congressional seat Jon Ossoff greets supporters at a campaign field office Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Marietta. Voters began casting ballots on Tuesday in the special election to fill the House seat vacated by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.
Democratic candidate has Donald Trump, Republicans worried about Georgia race
Republicans are pushing to prevent a major upset in a conservative Georgia congressional district where Democrats stoked by opposition to President Donald Trump have rallied behind a candidate who has raised a shocking amount of money for a special election. Tuesday's primary lumps all 18 candidates -Republicans, Democrats and independents - on one ballot in a race that is testing both parties' strategies for the 2018 midterm elections with Trump in the White House.
Democrat Jon Ossoff Is Poised to Strike at Georgia’s Solidly Red 6th District
Since the 2016 election, we've heard everything from now on will be a referendum on Trump . But here in Georgia, the special election for Rep. Tom Price's seat is a referendum on a man nobody talked about in 2016: Jon Ossoff.
Georgia Democrats See Chance To Send A Message With Special Election Upset
"It's just so wonderful to have a potential for a progressive Democrat to capture the district, and to send a message that we don't approve of the Trump agenda and the direction he's taking the country in," Bruce Johnson said as he gathered at Jon Ossoff's campaign office on Saturday morning to begin knocking on doors ahead of Tuesday's Johnson, 58, is an attorney in Silver Spring who's lived in the area for more than 20 years. He lamented that Democrats have never put up anyone other than a sacrificial lamb to run against Republican candidates here, particularly former Rep. Tom Price, whose appointment as President Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services triggered Tuesday's special election.
District 32 candidates discuss top issues
The eyes of the nation have been on Georgia's District 6, where 18 candidates are competing to replace former U.S. Rep. Tom Price, who resigned his seat to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
In Georgia race, Republicans battle as Democrat chases upset
A Georgia special congressional campaign has become an internal conservative squabble, with a national conservative group blasting a Republican establishment favorite as a big-spending "career politician," while other GOP hopefuls argue over who's most loyal to President Donald Trump. It's enough to leave national Republicans nervous they could lose the traditionally conservative suburban Atlanta district where Trump underperformed, with any upset certain to embolden Democrats ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
The Latest: Optometrists OK to do injections by House bill
Georgia House members have decided it's OK for optometrists, who are not medical doctors, to perform injections around the eye.
On Deck: Perdue’s Poverty Policies
Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is likely to field questions this week on his approach to poverty-assistance programs as a Senate committee considers his nomination to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Forsyth Democrats increasing presence
Anita Tucker, right, who ran last year as the Democratic challenger for the District 5 Board of Education seat, has been working with other party members in Forsyth, north Georgia and metro Atlanta to protest elected officials and other matters, most notably at the office of U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson. Forsyth County and the surrounding region have long been known as Republican strongholds, but local Democrats are taking a stand.
Attorneys: travel ban fight is ‘a marathon’ with no end in sight
In the days after President Donald Trump's first travel ban was introduced on January 27, clients streamed into Neha Vyas' Seattle law office. Some just wanted to hear a reassuring voice.
Dugan, Collins praise proposed drug bills
Struggling schools, opioid addiction and the state's medical marijuana program appear likely to dominate the rest of Georgia's legislative session. The Senate last week passed SB 81, the Jeffery Dallas Gay, Jr. Act, which would allow pharmacists to dispense Naloxone, an opioid antagonist, to individuals in accordance with a statewide standing order.
House to debate bills on school intervention, campus assault
Georgia lawmakers plan to consider dozens of bills on Wednesday, staring down a key deadline at the end of this week.
The Latest: Democrat Backs Agriculture Secretary Nominee
President Donald Trump's nominee for agriculture secretary, former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue , has already won the support of one farm-state Democrat. If confirmed, Perdue would be the first agriculture secretary from the South in more than two decades, and farm politics in Congress often fall along regional lines.
What happens if Trump decides to ignore a judge’s ruling?
President Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Feb. 3, 2017. President Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Feb. 3, 2017.
Georgia lawmaker, traveling with storm relief money, is shot
In this Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2003 file photo, Georgia Rep. Gerald Greene, D-Cuthbert, a member of the HOPE Scholarship Joint Study Commission, listens to some of the cost-cutting suggestions during the group's meeting, at the State Capitol in Atlanta. Green, 69, is recovering from a gunshot wound after he says he was shot, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, while traveling with several thousands of dollars in donations for storm relief efforts.
Crews search for toddler missing amid tornado destruction
Crews searched a mobile home park strewn with twisted metal and other debris Wednesday for a toddler whose parents reported him missing after a tornado demolished their trailer during a weekend outbreak of deadly storms. Albany Fire Chief Ron Rowe told a news conference the search for 2-year-old Detrez Green resumed at first daylight Wednesday.
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No. He should stand in solidarity with U.S. Rep. John Lewis and other congressional members who aren't attending. I don't care what he does on inauguration day, as long as he does a good job as a congressman.
Death toll rises to 15, at least 43 injured following SWGA storms
Death toll rises to 15, at least 43 injured following SWGA storm - KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana News Weather & Sports The death toll in Southwest Georgia after severe weather swept through the area has now risen to 15. Due to associations with wind and flooding, several schools and universities have been closed or are delayed from opening Monday. Due to associations with wind and flooding, several schools and universities have been closed or are delayed from opening Monday.
Severe storms: Death toll hits 16 amid Southeast tornadoes
Powerful storms kicked up apparent tornadoes and pushed the weekend death toll to 16 people killed and dozens injured as a fast-moving storm system punched through the Southeast for a second day on Sunday, authorities said. An apparent tornado blew through a mobile home park early Sunday in southern Georgia's rural Cook County - sheering off siding, upending homes and killing seven people, local authorities said.