A Republican official in Georgia believes his party will win Tuesday’s special election in the state’s 6th Congressional District thanks to last week’s attack on GOP congressmen at a baseball practice in Northern Virginia. “I’ll tell you what: I think the shooting is going to win this election for us,” Brad Carver, the party chairman in Georgia’s 11th congressional district, said Saturday, according to The Washington Post. Voters in Georgia head to the polls on Tuesday to decide a heated special election for the congressional seat Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price gave up to serve in Trump’s cabinet. A special election also is being held Tuesday in South Carolina’s 5th Congressional District for the seat Republican Mick Mulvaney vacated to become director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump. GOP candidate Ralph Norman, a businessman, similarly has predicted that last week’s shooting could boost his chances at the polls in the district that tilts Republican anyway.

Source: Huffington Post June 19, 2017 14:30 UTC