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Breaking overnight from georgia's sixth congressional district the only thing settled there this morning is nothing is settled just yet. a special election to fill a seat held for decades by republicans now headed to a june 20th runoff between 30-year-old democratic first timer john ossoff and republican karen handle. this is a widely republican seat since the carter administration. >> it's been held by newt gingrich and tom price whose departure to become health and human services secretary set off this special election. now in a race viewed as a bellwether for how republicans are in trump co...

>> so what do republicans have to do at this point to get that momentum that you see happening with the democrats? >> well, you know, a lot of it is going to come down to president trump, i think. this was billed as a referendum on him and his policies and what he's done in the white house. the way he leads. it was billed that way by the liberal groups that were pouring money into the race and john ossoff himself. so, you know, it's all going to come back to trump, i think in this case. >> all right, speaking of trump he was in wisconsin yesterday in kenosha the snap on tools factory talking a...

Needed to win this seat outright meaning there's going to be now a runoff in two months against the republican candidate karen handel, former attorney general. this district has not gone to a democratic candidate since, actually the last 37 years. so the fact that mr. ossoff came close, the democrats have reason to cheer last night even though he fell short. this is what he said when he addressed supporters. >> we have defied the odds. we have shattered expectations. we will be ready to fight on and win in june if it is necessary. and there is no amount of dark money, super p.a.c. negative adv...

Editor of cnn, zach wolf. so much talk leading up to this about how it was a bellwether for either party and here we are the next day wondering was it donald trump tweeted, we talked about it, glad to be of help. was he of help and what changed in this dynamic given the national sentiment? >> i think he's happy to say he was of help, but i don't think there's any way to view the 48 plus percent that john ossoff got other than something as a referendum on trump. he didn't quite get to that 50% but clearly the top candidate. he probably has a shot going into the runoff election but this is proba...

Can actually galvanize enough support on the left to get 51% and beat handel. she can get support from a lot of those supporters who backed her republican ponies and also the question, though, is the impact that donald trump will have as they try to woo swing voters. people may be disaffected by his presidency. guys. >> thank you. for his part president trump sees the georgia result as a victory for the gop and eeven taking credit for it. take a look at this post, tweet post-election tweet. he says despite major outside money fake media support even 11 republican candidates, big r win with run...