Locked in a tight fight for a Georgia congressional seat, Republican Karen Handel said on “The Laura Ingraham Show” on Friday that the GOP needs to be united in order to win the crucial contest against an onslaught of cash from Hollywood and national Democrats.

The 6th Congressional District in the Atlanta suburbs has become a swing district despite its long Republican roots. Trump won it in November by 1.5 percentage points, and in the current special election the president as an issue cuts both ways.

“This guy keeps saying he’s going to be accountable to the grassroots donors of his campaign. Yet 95 percent of those donors are Nancy Pelosi and members of the resistance movement from California, New York, and Massachusetts.”

Ingraham asked Handel why she had a private event with Trump instead of holding a public rally.

“I know that that’s a split district there and a lot of people don’t like Trump, but a lot of people do like Trump,” she said. “And my advice on stuff like that … you can’t go kind of half in. You’ve got to go full-on. I mean, he’s the president of the United States. So why are you hiding him under a bushel basket?”

Handel said she is not running away from Trump. She said she held a private fundraiser, which was necessary to counter big money that has poured into Democrat Jon Ossoff’s coffers. She said she did hold a public event with Trump beforehand at the National Rifle Association.

“Most of our people who would have been at a rally were at the NRA,” she said. “It was amazing, the incredible support for him in the room.”

Handel, a former Fulton County Commission chairwoman and Georgia secretary of state, has sought to contrast her experience with the 30-year-old Ossoff’s lack of depth. That was evident during the brief radio interview in which she twice referred to her opponent as a “kid.”

The election on June 20 is taking place because the former representative, Tom Price, became secretary of health and human services. It is likely Ossoff would not be where he is without the combination of a special election that has focused national attention and progressive rage.

Ossoff’s fundraising has been among the most successful of any congressional candidate in history. Most of it has come from outside the district.

“This guy keeps saying he’s going to be accountable to the grassroots donors of his campaign,” she said. “Yet 95 percent of those donors are [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi and members of the resistance movement from California, New York, and Massachusetts. They’re not even Georgians, let alone residents of the 6th District.”

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Handel dismissed a recent poll from Survey USA suggesting the Ossoff had opened up a 7 point lead. “That poll was crap … This race is neck and neck,” she said.

Handel said her campaign is knocking on 3,000 to 4,000 doors a day, in addition to help from the National Republican Congressional Committee, the Republican National Committee and outside conservative groups.

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Handel said she is relying on “motivated, energized Republicans who are not going to let Pelosi’s hand-picked kid take this seat.”

She blasted the tactics and tone of the self-styled resistance to Trump. She said it flies in the face of the Left’s rhetoric of tolerance.

“Yet, they are the most intolerant, unaccepting group of people that, you know, have come along in a really, really long time,” she said. “The resistance movement is all about intolerance and divisiveness.”

Handel noted that early voting already has begun.

“We’re gonna kick some Ossoff,” she said.