Georgia Democrat Eric Gisler flips a state House seat in district Trump won by double digits, CNN projects

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Source: cnn


By Ethan Cohen Updated 17 min ago


Democrats continued their run of successes in special elections by flipping a state House seat in Georgia Tuesday, according to a projection from the CNN Decision Desk.

The Democratic victory, in a district that voted for President Donald Trump by about 12 percentage points last year, comes ahead of next year’s critical midterms, when Georgians will vote in closely watched races for Senate and governor.

Eric Gisler, a Democrat who owns a local olive oil store, will defeat Republican Mack “Dutch” Guest in the 121st House District, in the northeastern part of the state, near the college town of Athens.

Between regularly scheduled elections in Virginia and New Jersey and special elections held on newly redrawn maps in Mississippi, Democrats flipped about 20 state legislative seats on Election Day last month. Those victories came after Democrats flipped two seats in Iowa and one in Pennsylvania during special elections earlier in the year. .....................








Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/09/politics/georgia-democrat-eric-gisler

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CONGRATS TO ERIC GISLER

Democrats continued their run of successes in special elections by flipping a state House seat in Georgia Tuesday, according to a projection from the CNN Decision Desk.
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Eric Gisler is seen in an image from his campaign site.
From Eric Gisler for Georgia

[bonzotex]

1. Great News!

Eric Gisler is a good one too!

Very low turnout election. Literally about 200 votes won it and pushed him past runoff. Dems in the Athens area are showing up.

[Leghorn21]

2. HOT DAMN!!

Fantastic news, thanks, riversedge!!

[BaronChocula]

3. A Democratic seat if you can keep it

I'm always happy with this news, but another part of my brain wonders why so many places in the country have to feel a republican-fueled crisis before they elect a Democrat for one cycle before switching back. I think of Alabama just barely electing Democrat Doug Jones Senator in a 2017 special election because his republican opponent was a child rapist (those were the days). Two years later they elected a complete simpleton with name recognition who had an "r" in front of his name in news chyron. But we'll see. Maybe this guy can keep his district blue. .

[Deminpenn]

4. When Aftyn Benn lost by 9 in TN-07, there was a lot of speculation

that Rs in Trump +12 or less districts could be in trouble. This Trump+12 state house district showed why political analysts thought that.

[Lasher]

5. Locking.

Please us the AP as your primary source when reporting election results.

[Lasher]

6. Locking.

Please us the AP as your primary source when reporting election results.