SMYRNA — Vice President Mike Pence says suburban Atlanta Republicans must elect Karen Handel to Congress to help President Donald Trump or risk a loss that could help hand House control back to Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi."I don't see this race so much as a choice between Karen Handel and her opponent," Pence told a gathering of Republican donors who paid $1,500 per person to hear his pitch."Karen Handel will partner with President Donald Trump to make America safe and prosperous again," while Jon Ossoff represents a throwback to Pelosi's first tenure as House speaker, Pence said.Handel and Ossoff meet in a June 20 runoff in Georgia's 6th Congressional District, which covers the northern suburbs of Atlanta but has become a proxy for the national political dynamic.Ossoff, a 30-year-old making his first bid for public office, has become a face of the anti-Trump movement nationally on his way to a record-setting $23 million fundraising haul, most of it from well beyond Georgia. Handel, a 55-year-old former secretary of state, has struggled to keep pace, instead depending on millions of dollars in ads from national Republican groups.The 6th District has been held by a Republican since 1979, but Trump isn't particularly popular here. He barely topped Democrat Hillary Clinton in November and still fell short of a majority.