Republican wins costly congressional race in Georgia – CNN

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga., (Reuters) – Republican Karen Handel won a hotly contested Georgia congressional race yesterday, CNN reported, fending off a Democratic challenge in a race that was widely seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump.

With more than 65 percent of the votes counted, CNN predicted that Handel, a former Georgia secretary of state, would defeat Democrat Jon Ossoff, a political newcomer who sought to wrest control of a suburban Atlanta district that has elected Republicans to Congress since the 1970s