The GA-6 result discredits the "centrists can win-the left can't" narrative.

[Ken Burch]

76. I never claimed it was a progressive-leaning district.

But Ossoff was supposed to have some special magic here, centrism was supposed to have some special magic here...and there was no magic.

Ideologically, it's comparable to the Kansas district and the Montana at-large race. In both of those races, the candidates we had in the special elections made dramatic improvements in the Democratic showing, improvements comparable to the actual gains Ossoff made.

Those candidates have been treated as if their efforts were humiliating failures. What I'm saying is that they did as well as Ossoff in ideologically comparable districts, so the notion that Ossoff-type candidates are inherently preferable and that voters will vote for his kind of Dem but not others has been discredited.

ANY Dem would have matched Ossoff's showing tonight.

I never, repeat NEVER claimed that this district leaned progressive, though, so don't imply that I did.