For the basic health of the GOP, I’m hoping Jon Ossoff of the Democrats wins the Georgia 6th District special election tonight, delivering the message that voters will not tolerate the extremism and apparent corruption exhibited by GOP-backed winning candidates in the last several months, from Trump on down. For what it’s worth, CNN is reporting …
As of 10:40 p.m. ET, Ossoff had 50.3% of the vote, with 77% of the vote in, according to Edison Research
which is about an hour ago. 3 tenths of one percent is not much of a margin, but I think is actually better performance than most poll-watchers were expecting. Will it hold up? And will the GOP be smart enough to realize that this isn’t a time to hunker down, whatever, the result, but to learn and ask what’s wrong with them?
Hard to do for a party that supposedly controls both chambers of Congress, although Trump is more of a chaoticist than a Republican, so I’m not certain that it’s accurate to say the GOP has the Presidency as well.
