Top Clinton ally on Handel's victory: 'Going high doesn't f--king work'

Neera Tanden, president of a liberal think tank and longtime confidante of Hillary Clinton, took to Twitter on Tuesday night after Republican Karen Handel won the special election in Georgia to express her frustration with recent political contests ending with the Democrats defeated.

“One important lesson is that when they go low, going high doesn’t f**king work,” Tanden tweeted. The tweet is a reference to a line delivered by former first lady Michelle Obama at the 2016 Democratic convention, and adopted by Clinton during the 2016 campaign: “When they go low, we go high.”