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The hotly contested June 2017 runoff election in Georgia's 6th congressional district has drawn much coverage and discussion in the weeks leading up to election night. The race, which is in a district that is normally so predictably Republican as to pass beneath the radar of the national and international media, has in 2017 become a partisan battleground in an increasingly polarized government, as FiveThirtyEight.com reports: Even President Donald Trump joined the discussion, using his Twitter account to once again criticize Democratic Party candidate Jon Ossoff. On the day of the vote, Trump posted: Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel are vying for the seat vacated by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and qualified for the runoff after none of the 18 candidates in a separate election on 18 April 2017 failed to win more than 50 percent of the vote. Trump first appeared to question Ossoff's legitimacy on the day of that election, when he posted: While the president's allegation about Ossoff's residency is true, the 30-year-old documentarian has not hidden that fact. He said: Ossoff said he lives a mile and a half down the street from the district. For her part, Handel has lived in the area for the past 25 years. Unlike other states, though, Georgia does not have a law mandating that congressional candidates live in the district they seek to represent. Ossoff's residency does comply with the federal requirement that Congressional candidates live in the state in which they are running. While Trump has also accused Ossoff of wanting to raise taxes, however, Ossoff has stated that he is against any increase in income tax rates and called the president's criticism misinformed. Another special election taking place on 20 June 2017, for South Carolina's 5th congressional district, has gone relatively ignored.
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