Jon Ossoff has won the nomination to take on Republican Sen. David Perdue in Georgia
Democrat , The Associated Press projected late Wednesday.
Georgia has not been viewed as a top-tier Senate race, with no outside spending so far compared to millions spent in other races, and neither party having yet booked TV ad time for the fall. But the state is an emerging battleground in the presidential contest, and recent public and internal Republican polling has shown the state to be competitive.
Ossoff is best known for losing the most expensive House race in history: a special election in 2017, months after President Donald Trump's inauguration. In that race, Ossoff won 48 percent of the vote in an April 2017 special election, just shy of a majority against a splintered GOP field in a suburban Atlanta district that was once solid Republican territory. In a runoff two months later, Republican Karen Handel edged Ossoff.
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