serve. heather: kellyanne conway says laughing my ossoff. >> nathan deal writing congratulations to my friend karen handel. a steadfast voice for georgia in dc. heather: earlier polls indicated the highly contested seat could have gone to the democrats. they were wrong. political editor explained those are not the numbers republicans were watching. >> we don't care about the top line numbers as much is the movement. the closing weeks karen handel was closing the gap and we focus on this race down to this being cast as make or break, do or die, if republicans lose the party exploded by nuclear bombs, cast into the abyss and it will all be over for them.