Page 2 - Project Jon Ossoff News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Election in june between the democrat, jon ossoff and the republican karen handel. the two top finishers in the primary. we're ready to project jon ossoff will not clear that percentage he needed to avoid the run off and now we're going to see what a one on one battle locks like. and they can have one instead of dividing by 11. so jon ossoff's challenge is bigger but the energy and enthusiasm is on the democratic side. i'm wondering how the crowd is reacting. if they have seen this projection of a run off. >> i can tell you people are still waiting for this -- they're showing cnn on the screen...

I mean that's 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. public polling showed he was probably in the 40s, mid-40s and even internal polling suggested the h...

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 who's 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 and believe can take them closer to taking back the house majority next year but certainly not wi...

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 we're 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. that's what we're going to see on june 20th. >> do you think at the end of the day they'll come home in georgia? >> i don't know. the purse in in the republican seat i would have identified him as a typical conservative. he knew house procedure like nobody's business. this guy who's now part of the trump ad...