Voters in­tent on sup­port­ing a Re­pub­lic­an will have 11 to choose from. And the can­did­ates, along with GOP su­per PACs, have spent mil­lions en­ga­ging in in­terne­cine squab­bling that can be dan­ger­ous when a run­off is guar­an­teed only if no can­did­ate garners a ma­jor­ity in the all-party primary.

“They haven’t really ser­i­ously thought through the scen­ario of a mu­tu­ally-as­sured-de­struc­tion path for Re­pub­lic­ans,” said former GOP Rep. Jack King­ston of Geor­gia. “Then you clear the way for 51 per­cent for Os­soff.”

Some of the Re­pub­lic­ans who once ex­pec­ted Demo­crats to struggle to even get a can­did­ate in­to the run­off now worry they’ve al­lowed Os­soff to dic­tate the terms of the race and build an or­gan­iz­a­tion­al ad­vant­age, while they spent time and money at­tack­ing each oth­er. In a night­mare out­come for Re­pub­lic­ans, the bruis­ing in­tra-party con­flict and bar­rage of neg­at­ive ads could de­press GOP turnout and push in­de­pend­ents to­ward Os­soff, en­abling him to win the 6th Dis­trict seat out­right.

Many of the Re­pub­lic­an front-run­ners, as well as mul­tiple out­side groups back­ing them, have turned their fire in­ward. In just the last week, former state Sen. Dan Moody dropped a 30-second spot trash­ing Kar­en Han­del, a former Geor­gia sec­ret­ary of state with high name ID from a trio of statewide bids, as a self-in­ter­ested politi­cian. Mean­while, Jud­son Hill, an­oth­er former state le­gis­lat­or, re­leased an ad lam­poon­ing Han­del, Moody, and former Johns Creek Coun­cil­man Bob Gray.