ATLANTA (AP) — The Democratic candidate in Georgia’s special congressional election has proposed to his longtime girlfriend.
News outlets report that Jon Ossoff and Alisha Kramer became engaged Friday night.
She is a third-year medical student at Emory University.
Both Kramer and Ossoff grew up in the metro Atlanta area and graduated from Georgetown University. They have been dating for 12 years.
Ossoff faces Republican Karen Handel in the special election’s June 20 runoff.
Republicans and Democrats alike see the contest as an important barometer of President Donald Trump’s standing ahead of 2018 midterm elections, when Democrats will try to regain control of Congress.
The Georgia district was represented previously by Trump’s new health secretary, Tom Price.
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Such questions should be “awkward” only for the questioner. His relationship with his girlfriend is none of your fucking business. But hey, the good news is you’ve forced them into an engagement that - for whatever reasons - they weren’t really ready for, just to keep up appearances. And that is the best way to start a married life together - pressured by the political press to “do the ‘right’ thing”.