Hillary...oops.

Meanwhile, as The Mercury News pointed out earlier this morning, this race has been by far the costliest in the history of Congressional races with Ossoff raising over $23 million. Ironically, he received nearly 9x more donations from California than from Georgia, a testament to how this special election has morphed into a national contest for Democrats.

Between March 29 and May 31, Ossoff reported receiving 7,218 donations from California, dwarfing the 808 donations he received from Georgia. In the nine Bay Area counties alone, he received 3,063 donations in the same time period. Those are only a fraction of Ossoff’s total donations, as he doesn’t have to report contributions from people who give less than $200 in total. In addition, many of the individual donations include the sameFulton.



Ossoff is expected to do well in DeKalb, but he will likely need big turnout there to overcome Handel's advantage in Republican-leaning Cobb and Fulton counties. Per the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

North Fulton is home to some of the most conservative turf in the district. Republican Karen Handel hails from there, and it encompasses the highest share of early votes. The county has a reputation for being slow to tally its votes (it took Fulton until after 2 a.m. to fully report during the first round of votes in April), but Fulton’s top elections official said he expects things to move smoothly today since there’s only one race on the ballot. North DeKalb accounts for the most Democratic-leaning part of the district. It’s where Democrat Jon Ossoff grew up,