ANALYSIS: Nancy Pelosi was a huge drag on Ossoff.

The most prominent and effective hit on the Democratic candidate was to tie him to the congresswoman from San Francisco.

Republican operatives say that 98 percent of voters in the 6th District already had an impression of Pelosi when they conducted their first internal poll, and she was 35 points underwater. When presented with the choice of whether they wanted a representative who would work with Paul Ryan or Pelosi, six in 10 picked the Speaker and three in 10 picked the minority leader.

When most of your record-setting fundraising comes from California, it isn’t difficult for the opposition to tie you to the unloved former Speaker.