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Ossoff claimed credit for the results, tweeting, despite major outside money, fake media support, and 11 republican candidates, big r win with runoff in georgia. glad to be of help. but a lot of republicans think trump didn't help at all, quite the opposite. ossoff outperformed expectations entering election day, which suggests trump's involvement may have actually benefited ossoff. meanwhile republican bob gray, who made allegiance to trump the cornerstone of his campaign, only got about 10% of the vote. this is not the first sign of trouble for republicans. last week in kansas, democrat jame...

Pretty far from being a loss. ossoff outperformed the 2016 democratic candidate by ten points and won a higher percentage of the vote than any democrat since the district was established back in 1992. he very nearly walked away with the seat that republican tom price won last year by more than 20 points. in a district that's about 9.5 percentage points more republican than the nation as a whole. president trump, who tweeted and recorded a robocall against ossoff claimed credit for the results, tweeting, despite major outside money, fake media support, and 11 republican candidates, big r win wi...

Mobilization. that's one interpretation and it's too early to talk about the dynamics of that. >> i want to point out this was also johnny iverson's seat and he won state wide three times and lost three times. that is not something that's going to hold karen back. and she's not a moderate. she's a very tough, very savvy fiscal conservative and social conservative republican. it was a tough field. judson hill, a very popular state senator. moody, member of the transportation commissions. you had a lot of really good people in this race. bob gray who was on the city counsel. so when we talk abou...

But who those voters are, just nobody knows. >> the trump entrance in the race is really interesting to me because i've been watching the republicans, particularly karen handel, who is a known quantity there. she's run for statewide office before. tying themselves in knots trying to kind of distance themselves from the president. it's the kind of race where you'd think he'd lay low, but he's definitely just thrown himself in. >> well, and i think that he undetands that whatever happens tonight, this is a referendum on donald trump. and if the most -- the result that's the most expected is that...

Johni ernst by critical of donald trump on certain fronts. there are two tests here. republicans are getting more critical of trump on conflicts of interest, transparency issues and his taxes. and then this is a good test to democratic staying power. if they are going to make gains in 2018, they have to keep at it. we'll see if the anti-trump movement can hold together for now to june in that district. >> speaking of that and speaking of republicans and how closely they want to tie themselves to donald trump, the republicans in the race did lash themselves to the president of the united states...