Republicans are getting very nervous about Jon Ossoff and the special election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District.
Mounting worries have led the GOP’s House campaign arm to set up its independent expenditure operation with a “battle plan” to get involved “in short order,” National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Steve Stivers told POLITICO.
“Special elections are special, and the Democrats and some Independents are excited, so we need to make sure Republicans are just as excited about voting. I feel confident that we’ll get there,” Stivers said, noting that the party’s involvement is designed to motivate turnout, not back one of the nearly dozen GOP candidates seeking the seat. “But we know that Ossoff is real.”
If no candidate gets 50 percent in the April 18 election, the top two will go to a June run-off. Since the Republican field is big and fragmented—and currently turning fire on one another—while Democrats have largely coalesced around Ossoff, the Republican game plan is clear:
“Our job is to make sure we keep him below 50 [percent],” Stivers said. “Then we coalesce and unite our forces around one candidate in June.”
That’s the Republicans’ job, now that they’re taking Ossoff and the possibility that they could lose this race seriously. Our job is to do everything we can for Ossoff.
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