The Latest: Trump congratulates Handel on Twitter

President Donald Trump took to Twitter to celebrate Republican Karen Handel's victory in a Georgia special congressional race that became an expensive national proxy for Washington wars ahead of next year's midterm elections.

In another tweet, Trump also congratulated Republican Ralph Norman, who won a special congressional election in South Carolina.

[...] in a third tweet, the president gloated over those wins and other recent Republican wins, saying the special elections are over and those that want to MAKE AMERICAN GREAT AGAIN are 5 and 0!

Republicans have some breathing room after Karen Handel won a nationally watched congressional election in Georgia to avoid a major upset ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.