Trump's shadow looms over Georgia's special election

“I’ve been thinking about how no one in the Republican Party is standing up to what is crazy,” she said while standing her driveway, mentioning some of Trump’s controversial Cabinet appointments and statements.

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“It’s immensely shaken my confidence in the Republican Party,” added King, who declined to say who she voted for in the presidential election.

With dispirited Republican voters like King on one side and a fired-up liberal base on the other, Democrats are hoping to use the April 18 special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District as a model for how to convert Trump’s unpopularity into votes in future contests.

It’s a high-profile race for a seat that used be held by Newt Gingrich and which was recently vacated by former Rep. Tom Price, who joined Trump’s cabinet as Health and Human Services Secretary.

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