With spending on advertising by both sides nearing a total of $40 million, the race already ranks as the most expensive House contest in U.S. history. The high early vote total indicates that the final numbers on Tuesday will likely far surpass those of the April election. Election officials in Georgia hailed the “unprecedented” and “phenomenal” turnout, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Ossoff led by slightly more than 2 percentage points in the HuffPost Pollster average of recent surveys of the race. Price won re-election November, garnering almost 62 percent of the roughly 311,000 votes cast.

Source: Huffington Post June 18, 2017 20:48 UTC