more live coverage at noon today as georgetown university holds a ceremony to rename several buildings on campus that are slaves to university sold to pay off debt in the 1800s. georgetown announced it would give admittance preference to descendents of those ways. tag - taxes, that is all i want to say. there is a special election today in >> there is a special election today in georgia. special congressional election to fill the seat vacated by tom price when he was appointed as helping humans services secretary. we are joined by greg boosting his political reporter for the atlantic -- atlanta journal.wh tell us about this election. this is a field where there's a lot of republicans running in just one democrat, correct? >> welcome and is actually five democrats, but there's one hasf really rallied to support the brand of the democratic party.

he has transformed his ways that was once thought to be pretty much all republican thayer were a lot of people not do as the non-republican runoff. we were right about the big topic and round about the republican affair. ossoff has raised more than $8 from a flooded the district with advertising and this is seen as an early referendum on trump popularity. >> host: was that 8 million coming for mr. ossoff and where is money coming from outside groups for the republican candidates? >> yeah, the tremendous amount of money is outside of georgia in the district. only one in 20 of ossoff's donors live in georgia and even fewer in the actual congressional district. same thing with the outside spending from washington groups, washington political groups gave very little spending is coming in georgia it felt.

this is definitely aample of nationalized racemic as the more they getting 2018. >> the six congressional district has been held by republicans since 1979. where is it and what's it like? >> yang mean, it and the district right now at transfer and east cobb county and sort of the northwest suburbs all thee way to the eastern suburbs to various highly educated and very red district has been established that john mccain won overwhelmingly in 2008-2012. it only carried about a plane and carried about appointment speaks volumes about the district skepticism. >> as i understand it, somebody has to get it a percent or go into a special election. one at that deed?

>> only 10 candidates regardless of party share the same balance. no one gets over 50% of the vote. it's looking like ossoff has at least guaranteed a spot in the runoff, but that might be his best chance at a victory andll they've pumped more than $6 billion, probably more thanha $8 million at this point to do just that. voters who very rarely obeyed in any sort of primaries initial g1 election has given one, two, three, four players a day from democratic groups trying to change the electorate. >> in terms of the rest ofeup. georgia delegation, what's the makeup?ep is it mostly republican? >> i was a overwhelmingly republican delegation. for democrats on the delegation, but this is -- it's a very red state. trump still wanted by five-point

despite losing most of our metro atlanta, which is another big shocker from november's race. he last called county to suburban atlanta strongholds, republican strongholds that has been in the republican camp since jimmy carter's area. he last those in november. so the state is still a red state, but metro atlanta starting to turn a little morewi purple. >> host: the president weighed in with tweed and even today that john ossoff would be a disaster, bad for jobs and wants higher is. say no. what sort of feeling on president trump early in his president a bear and not district in the atlanta suburb -- suburban region. >> yeah, i mean, trump is weighing very deeply into this race. he recorded a robocall attacking

democrat ossoff. this is seen as a democrat for republicans here as an embarrassing rebuke to donald trumps presidency. i don't think there's any two ways about that. because ossoff has made this campaign and make strong serious campaign. that is what he calls a nes vowed to donald trump. there are 11 of them. some of them got to be a trompe l'oeil list and they will be trump's most ardent ally and others say they will be an independent check on trump in congress. that appeals to a segment of the republican electorate here who voted for trump that kind of did so by holding the nurse. >> host: greg bluestein is reporter for the atlanta journal constitution. read more ajc and follow him publicly today