Trump Bashes ‘Super Liberal’ Leading Georgia House Race On Eve Of Election

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Donald Trump on Monday morning weighed in on the special election to fill an open House seat in Georgia by criticizing the leading Democratic candidate as “super liberal.”

The special election takes place on Tuesday.

Democrat Jon Ossoff has been leading the polls for the 18-candidate race to fill the seat vacated by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. Democrats have been hopeful that they can channel anti-Trump fervor into a win, especially given that Trump only won the district by one point in the November election.

The race will function as a jungle primary, with all candidates regardless of party competing on one ballot. If no one candidate clears 50 percent of the vote, the top two finishers will head to a run-off in June.

Ossoff responded to Trump’s “misinformed” tweet in a Monday morning statement.

“While I’m glad the President is interested in the race, he is misinformed,” he said in a statement. “I’m focused on bringing fresh leadership, accountability, and bipartisan problem solving to Washington to cut wasteful spending and grow metro Atlanta’s economy into the Silicon Valley of the South.”

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  1. First thing the Drumpfster Fire got right! Liberals are Super!

    Beyond that, Drumpf bashing this means the GOP already knows they lost the seat.

  2. I’d like to bash him.

  3. Trump weird speech from balcony of WH. Now Evita butchering American language.

    More bigly than Obama

  4. One word is worth a thousand pictures.

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