Wow:
The husband of Republican congressional candidate Karen Handel shared an image on his Twitter timeline Tuesday that urged voters to support his wife in order to "free the black slaves from the Democratic plantation."
Handel's husband, Steve Handel, shared the image in the form of a quote-tweet, in which he shared the tweet of another user who initially posted the image and added his own commentary. In a statement to CNN's KFile on Tuesday, Handel's campaign said her husband hadn't paid attention to what was said in the original tweet.
"Like many of us, he (Steve) made a mistake and retweeted something he didn't pay a lot of attention to, thinking it was just an absentee vote message. It clearly was not appropriate and has been deleted," a campaign spokesperson said.
Yeah, sure he did. Or maybe Handel and the GOP are feeling a lot of pressure from today’s poll?
The Georgia congressional race that’s in the national spotlight is a statistical dead heat, according to a Democratic polling firm.
Democrat Jon Ossoff leads Republican Karen Handel in the sixth district race by a single point, 48 to 47, Atlanta Business Chronicle’s broadcast partner, 11Alive reports.
The poll, conducted April 23-26 by Anzalone Listz Grove Research, has a margin of error of four percentage points.
Or are they nervous about the oncoming barrage of ads soon to be hitting the airwaves?
Democratic congressional nominee Jon Ossoff’s campaign has reserved more than $5.2 million in TV and radio ads ahead of a June runoff, according to Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Ossoff will square off against Republican nominee Karen Handel in the June 20 runoff to fill the House seat vacated by President Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.
Ossoff, an investigative filmmaker, raised an unprecedented $8.3 million in the three months leading up to the April 18 primary. He pulled in another $500,000 a day after the primary and has likely raised even more since his initial fundraising filing.
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