Shane McTague

Mr. Muntz

Contemporary World Problems

28 February, 2017

A Democrat in Conservative Georgia Rides Opposition to Trump

Jon Ossoff, the thirty-year-old Democrat is running to be a part of congress using the line

Make Trump Furious and I think it is genius. He lives in Alpharetta, Georgia, a predominantly

conservative district, but is making headway gaining near three million dollars in campaign

donations. His opponents are eleven Republicans who are struggling to gain traction. Mr. Ossoff

was quoted as saying, Im the underdog [...] energy is everything. He and his eventual sole

Republican opponent will be competing for the congressional seat left empty when President

Trump appointed Tom Price to the secretary of health and human services. The Democrats only

hopes for gaining the twenty-four seats they need to regain the majority in the House of

Representatives are anti-Trump renegades like Mr. Ossoff. His race against the Republicans will

be in a district held by Republicans for an entire generation. In well educated suburbia Democrats

are looking to capitalize on anger towards Trumps America. It is anticipated by Republicans that

the Democrats are going to be nominating candidates from the more progressive branch of their

party. They will do this with high hopes but they may not give a good fit for these general

elections even where Trump support dwindles. On the other side of the ballot the Republican party

needs to choose candidates that either clone Mr. Trump or separate themselves as far as possible.

In a race that has some resemblances, but slightly more difficult is happening in Montana. Rob

Quist is a musician who is being compared to Bernie Sanders. In Montana Democrats have had

only mediocre success in recent years. Nancy Keenan, the executive director of the Montana
Democratic Party stated, Its a base election, and our base is very energized right now. Both

parties, Nathan Gonzales, the editor of Inside Elections, said, are trying to figure out whether it is

an example of a new movement, or just people who always vote Democrat just being more vocal.

History is on their side, Mr. Gonzales said about the Democrats, because the presidents party

often loses a significant number of seats in the midterms. But in 2016, there was a disconnect

between how voters viewed Trump and Republican candidates down the ballot. Democrats

assumed that voters would hold other Republicans responsible for Trumps sins, and in most cases,

they didnt.