Democrats Seethe After Georgia Loss: ‘Our Brand Is Worse Than Trump’  —  Democrats seethed, second-guessed and sought to regroup on Wednesday after a disappointing special election defeat in Georgia, with the party's campaign chief in the House of Representatives outlining alternative paths to taking power …

One big lesson from GA 06.  —  Pretty close to exactly 12 years ago, I took the reins of the political operation of the Florida House Democratic Caucus.  During my three years there, we picked up nine Republican districts, including two swing seat Special Elections, including a special in a ruby-red type district like Georgia 06.

Live Election Results and Estimates: Georgia's Sixth Congressional District  —  Dem.  —  63,302  —  9% reporting (19 of 208 precincts)  —  The race between Jon Ossoff and Karen Handel is largely seen as a referendum on the first months of Donald J. Trump's presidency.

The Daily 202: Democrats despondent, Trump emboldened after GOP victory in Georgia special election  —  THE BIG IDEA: With all the ballots counted, Republican Karen Handel won the most expensive House race in U.S. history by 3.8 percentage points.  That's a larger margin of victory …

G.O.P. Health Plan Is Really a Rollback of Medicaid  —  Limiting the amount that the federal government would pay for each person would leave states with difficult choices, and would be a fundamental shift of financial risk.  —  Tucked inside the Republican bill to replace Obamacare is a plan …

Fears mount that Obamacare repeal will put life-saving treatments for opioid epidemic out of reach  —  Ohio resident Stephanie Neeley, who struggled with an addiction to opioids, was able to get treatment thanks to Medicaid coverage made possible by the Affordable Care Act.  She fears that may go away.