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Stay with us because well continue with our coverage here, obviously. >> we certainly will. and i mean, at the end of the day, its going to a run off but its a good night for democrats and republicans have to be asking themselves what went wrong. >> i dont think so because you had so many republicans running in this jungle primary. the democrats cleared the field for ossoff so he could spend all his money attacking the republicans. the republicans were taking part in a circular firing squad. now...

Career, anything like that. karen handel is a party activist and very comfortably take this seat with about 54% of the vote. >> it didnt help that ossoff couldnt vote for himself because he doesnt live in the district, right? >> i think we might get reminded of that several times in the coming months. >> so, democrats were hoping this was going to be like the moment of scott brown taking over the seat with a swing of more than 20 points. this is nothing like that. >> but in terms of this distric...

Coordinate the message with the stuff donald trump is tweeting at 2:00 a.m. in the morning? >> good luck there. >> regardless of what you think of the tweet, this wasnt a very important election for this president. >> it was. and the tweet saying glad to be of help was inevitable. we had said all night long he clearly had placed a bet that ossoff was going to end up below that 50% mark and with the robo call, the tweeting multiple times about the race, he wanted to lay down a marker and one we k...

Be really important. but jon ossoff loses oton the split field. >> thank you. everybody stay with us. we have to squeeze in a very short break. youre watching cnns continuing coverage of runoff election. >> a lot more analysis to come. do stay with us. is to always kek of your employees. micromanage them. make sure theyre producing. woo! employee of the month! you really shouldnt leave their side. vita coco coconut water, hydration comes naturally.

>> and cnn senior reporter for media and politics. a lot of money went into ossoffs campaign, a lot of it coming from california actually. will there be the same level of inthuz as thuz as im for the ru? can they continue to spend $8 million plus on every congressional district? >> if you look at tonight s election in georgia, the recent election in kansas, what youre seeing is that democrats are seeing hope. you know you call it the litmus test, the big question is can democrats have a shot at ...

Election in june between the democrat, jon ossoff and the republican karen handel. the two top finishers in the primary. were ready to project jon ossoff will not clear that percentage he needed to avoid the run off and now were going to see what a one on one battle locks like. and they can have one instead of dividing by 11. so jon ossoffs challenge is bigger but the energy and enthusiasm is on the democratic side. im wondering how the crowd is reacting. if they have seen this projection of a r...

I mean thats the headline. this thing will go to a runoff. what is the feeling among the ossoff camp and among supporters about what the road ahead will look like, what this fight is going to be like to win this run off against karen handel. >> no doubt there was disappointment in the room, a hope that perhaps he could achieve that 50% thresh hold and win the seat outright. but at the same time no one -- top officials in both parties were not expecting jon ossoff to get to that 50% thresh hold. ...

Welcome back everybody. 25 minutes past 9:00 on the west coast. cnn projecting there will be a runoff between democrat jon ossoff and republican karen handel. >> this special election is viewed as something of a litmus test on a local level and he has taken a personal interest in it. mr. trump attacked ossoff in a robo call and tweets. and he tweeted this "despite major outside money, fake media support and 11 republican candidates, big "r" win with runoff in georgia. glad to be of help!"

Now he has a two months one on one race with karen handel whos well known in the district and the state. decent name id and will pose a threat given she can presumably consolidate the republican field behind her and make this a one on one contest with ossoff. so, the questioning now is how will democrats regroup? this crowd was fired up. they believe they can still win in two months time and expect a lot of money to come in here as democrats still view this seat as very winnable so they can flip...

In the party were choosing different candidates. early on the democrats coalesced around jon ossoff. that was a key move to take all the democratic vote. now were going to see what a one on one race looks like with the type of republicans that have been resistant to trump in the trump era. thats what were going to see on june 20th. >> do you think at the end of the day theyll come home in georgia? >> i dont know. the purse in in the republican seat i would have identified him as a typical conser...