Democrat leads early returns in Georgia congressional race
Source: MSN/Associated Press
DUNWOODY, Ga. — An upstart Democrat leads a special election in a conservative Georgia congressional district as he bids for a major upset, but his margin is narrowing.
After the Tuesday evening poll closings, votes were being counted in the metro Atlanta race in which Democrat Jon Ossoff sought to parlay opposition to President Donald Trump into a victory that would rebuke the White House and embolden Democrats ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
With early voting totals and about a third of precincts counted, Ossoff was above the majority threshold required to win an 18-candidate primary. But tens of thousands of votes have yet to be counted in Georgia's 6th Congressional District that stretches across the northern suburbs of Atlanta, and Ossoff's lead had already started to narrow as more precincts reported.
Republicans nationally and in Georgia acknowledged before polls opened that Ossoff would top the field Tuesday. An entire slate_Republicans, Democrats and independents — appeared on one primary ballot.
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrat-leads-early-returns-in-georgia-congressional-race/ar-BBzYonY
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