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Yeah, democrats closed -- what you're showing there is comparing the 2016 house race to the 2017 special. here's a little secret about the house race in georgia, it didn't happen. the democratic candidate raised zero dollars. the media struggled to find a picture of the guy. it was a random name running against a six-term incumbent so i don't think that's a great barometer. i think the president trump margin is a better barometer. what you see when you look at that is democrats cut deeply into the trump margin in kansas, they cut deeply into it in montana and they cut deeply into it in south c...

Do on tuesday. that will be a big, big night for them because it creates momentum that it's hard to turn back. >> at the same time, i do think ramesh is right, that the real indication on this may be for health care just because if you look at the way that ossoff ran, it was mostly railing against health care and not necessarily the president personally. the implications of that at this very fragile moment where senate republicans don't even want to tell us what's in their bill and the implications of how they could kind of back off -- >> ramesh, i want you to comment on that really quick. do ...

Points away from winning the seat outright. do you know who is calling this a wake-up call for the republicans. a republican from the south and his name is lindsay graham. listen to this. >> the south is changing. atlanta is changing and i like our chances in a runoff, but we need to wake up as a party. there are districts like this that are getting much more moderate and i think karen will do a good job and she's probably the best republican we could have chosen, and i like the chances of winning this seat, but this should be a wake-up call for the republican party in the south. >> bob, is he...

In much part by making this election a referendum on donald trump, and when you look at what's happening here at the end of the day, both sides, you've got republicans and you've got democrats and both of them claiming a victory of sorts here. listen to what ossoff had to say last night. >> and there is no amount of dark money, super pac, negative advertising that can overcome real grassroots energy like this. so bring it on. >> reporter: well, he says bring it on, but again, the reality is he did want to avoid a runoff. he knows that's going to be a steep hill for him to climb. karen handel, ...

>> good question. >> no, i don't think she would have any concerns about that whatsoever. she didn't express concerns to me when we talked about it. she's a republican and supports the president. she mentioned that she wants the president to come down to campaign for her. for her it's about energizing the base and as everybody knows that's not an easy thing to do. so she needs the trump voters to come out and she needs her voters to come out and she's run statewide a couple of times and she's always run well in that district. she's not won statewide and she's run well in that district. she wil...