House Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanAt indoor rally, Pence says election runs through Wisconsin Juan Williams: Breaking down the debates Peterson faces fight of his career in deep-red Minnesota district MORE (R-Wis.) is weighing in on Georgia's special House election, recording a robocall encouraging Republicans in the state's 6th Congressional District to get out the vote, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

The election is set for next Tuesday and pits a crowded field of GOP candidates against Democrat Jon Ossoff, who has gained a high profile among other Democrats in recent weeks as the race to fill now-Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price's vacated seat heats up.

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Ossoff raised more than $8 million for the race, putting at risk a House seat that has long been in Republican hands. What's more, the party is dealing with a fractured field of candidates, and Republicans have not overwhelmingly rallied around any single one.

But Ryan's fundraising operation brought in more than $22 million in the first quarter of 2017 — a sizable haul that will largely go to other GOP candidates.

The Georgia election marks the next big electoral hurdle for Republicans, who narrowly retained a House seat in Kansas's 4th District this week. There, Ron Estes, the Republican Kansas state treasurer, beat out Democrat James Thompson by only 7 percentage points — a small margin in a district typically considered safe for GOP candidates.