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Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Matthew Glicias here with us, Sarah Clip and Ezra Klein. We've got the continuing saga of the

secret healthcare legislation to talk about. The search continues. As well as a hot white paper

with what I regard as a kind of a surprise twist ending. But last night we had a, it was a very

special special election night. The most expensive. On a very special edition of the Democrats

leasing a race. He was the most expensive house race in history in Georgia sex. It was the highest

turnout that we have ever seen for a house special election. It even exceeded the turnout for

the last midterm that they held there. Really sort of extraordinary level of mobilization and

engagement. And it turned into a huge disappointment for Democrats. Not an objectively

terrible result. But after all the hype and the money and the enthusiasm that both sides poured

in, Janosov did exactly the same as Hillary Clinton. No, he did worse. Slightly worse. This I

think is what actually makes it a quite difficult race to interpret. I mean, putting, putting

first, it is not a good result for Democrats. They actually need to win races. That's an important

part of winning Congress back. But if you're asking this sort of more subtle question of just

what kind of trends are we seeing in the electorate. The reason I think it's very hard to interpret

this district is that it is an unusual district that had a tremendous difference between the

presidential and congressional results in 2016. So in 2016, this district, which was a reliably

Republican district is represented by Tom Price, the HHS secretary, and he would win it by 2025,

27 points. Hillary Clinton lost it only by 1.5 points. And so on the one hand, price won by this

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