Kornacki: ‘I Do Wonder’ if the Fact Ossoff Live Outside the District ‘Rubbed’ GOP Voters the ‘Wrong Way’

‘They thought they could get a win and poured tens of millions of dollars into it and poured basically not a cent into South Carolina’

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KORNACKI: "Yeah. I mean, look, I think he was -- he was understanding that this is a Republican district, historically. He wanted to come across as sort of — I think the theory here on his side, the anti-Trump stuff will take care of itself. The democratic base that’s motivated to get out there, send a messages to Trump, calls themselves part of resistance, that’s going on there anyway. He wanted to be sort of a reassuring figure to sort of the more moderate Republican transition of the district. I do wonder, I don’t think we can quantify this, we don’t have exit polling. I do wonder, in the end, if the fact that he didn’t live in the district, if that did sort of rub some of those traditional Republican voters of the district the wrong way; that hey, ultimately, you know, who is this guy?" 

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