Marita, Georgia (AP) – there John Osov Who built his political career about Donald Trump’s criticism.
There is also OSSOFF that works with Republicans, and enhances the interests of farmers in Georgia and military bases.
But they are the same man-a 38-year-old American Senator from Georgia says that his race will be the “main event” in 2026. He is the only democratic Senator who seeks to elevate him from Trump carried a state In winning the presidential elections last year.
OSSOFF is among many Democrats looking for the correct way to challenge Trump and the Republicans after the Republican Party won the White House and The majority of Congress In 2024, while some Democrats may be The presidency is looking for in 2028OSSOFF has a more urgent goal – to keep its seat in Georgia, where Republicans hope to place the narrow majority of the Senate.
However, mid -term elections usually prefer the party that opposes the president. Republicans often nominated in recent years the candidates The moderate is seen as very extremeIncluding in Georgia.
OSSOFF, at the same time, chooses its locations carefully, Trump’s challenge strongly On some fronts while still recognizes the desire to work with it. In recent weeks, it is He launched a re -election offer With severe criticism of Trump’s second periods, Democrats criticized that he was not fighting enough, and he reached patriotism and service for potential military academy students at the Dobins Air Force Base in Marietta.
Fighting Trump and working with him
OSSOFF says there is no clash between the two parties and Trump’s fight, but at this stage that is still from the second Trump administration, it is clearly looking to achieve the right balance. Voters in Georgia returned to Trump in 2024 after Democratic choice Joe Biden with a small difference In 2020 and the Democrats gave control of the Senate by electing Osov and Raphael Warnook In a twin surface flow.
“The first and higher commitment to it is the delivery of Georgia,” Osov said in an interview with Associated Press.
But OSSOFF is not new to Trump’s criticism. He became a resistance hero in him Unarmed 2017 term In the first special elections for Trump’s first chapter, then a record of spending on the home seat.
“We have never seen a president trying to use the federal government to crush his political critics and opponents. This is something new in American history, and, in my opinion, is non -American,” Osov said. “It is something that should calm us into the bones, regardless of our policy, regardless of our political preferences.”
In the last city hall, some voters pressed Ossoff to direct Trump directly.
“Do you think there is nothing that will not be done?” Kate Dini asked, from Avondale Estates. “No. Do something more.”
While Osov told Dini that “the behavior of this president has already exceeded any pre -accountable standard,” he also said that he had “no magic button” to stop Trump. He said that the only reliable solution is to restore the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Osov said he would not change his method.
Osov said: “I am who I am, and I am talking directly, speak frankly.” “I also think before I talk.”
Democrats were hoping for the 2021 victories by Osov and Warnock indicating the party’s emission in Georgia. But Republican ruler Brian Kemp It was sailed for his re -election in 2022 Democratic Stacy Abrams. Warrenuk needed to run Send the defective Senate campaign From the former football star Hershel Walker.
In 2024, Georgia’s voters preferred Trump to the then president, Kamala Harris, with two percentage points. Many Republicans were betting on the election of Osov in 2020 as a coincidence and aims to prevent him from running to the center As Warrenuk did in 2022.
“Osov’s policy has not succeeded in the far left except at a specific moment of the chaos of the Republican Party,” said Dan Makkagan, Republican Political Adviser, Dan McLagan. “It seems as if it appears at the Lee Greenwood party on the fourth of July with the” Palestine Free “brand and the Chi Guevara shirt. Everyone has already seen it, and it is too late to change his clothes.”
The movements moved some Democrats
Even inside his party, the OSSOFF path was not always smooth. Some black Democrats have offended his efforts to overthrow US MP Nikima Williams from Atlanta as head of the Democratic Party in Georgia. The party changed its bases to make the situation driven and full time Williams step down Before the Democrats Elect a new chair Saturday. Osov said he asked Williams to quit smoking, saying that for the progress “Democrats in Georgia need a party party organization with professionalism, resources and unparalleled capabilities at the national level.”
Osov, the first Jewish Senator of Georgia, disturbed many Jewish voters when he supported a decision in November by Senator Vermont Bernie Sanders, an independent who gathered with the Democrats, to prevent the sale of some weapons to Israel.
The vote got OSSOFF A public reprimand letter Among many Jewish institutions, including the temple, the historic Atlanta synagogue, where it got a Metzafah bar. The second message, which was reported by the New York Times for the first time, was sent by senior Jewish donors to Kembe urged him to request Osov seat.
In April, Osov voted against a new group of Sanders’ decisions, and alleviating tensions, Ally Midov, a long active democracy of the Israeli -American Public Affairs Committee, a pro -Israel group. “The temperature is reduced, but the level of confidence has not yet been restored,” she said.
OSSOFF tells its success in making India to reduce the customs tariffs on the boots cultivated in Georgia and the cultivation of voters in the republican regions outside Atlanta. he I supported Biden incentives To build electric cars and Competition with Kembe To take credit for investments.
OSSOFF walks a more accurate line on immigration. He voted in favor of Riley Lake LawWhich requires the detention of migrants in the United States who are not accused and accused of stealing and violent crimes. The law was named after Nursing student in the murdered Georgia Who published the issue of Republicans. Osov said that the Americans “deserve safe borders” and that the “Biden administration has failed in its border policies”, but he also says that the immigration policy must be “human.”
Republicans have already launched ads attack OSSOFF’s Opposition With the exception of schools, it is to allow sexually transgender women to participate in women’s sports. OSSOFF calls that most voters do not share them.
Ossoff investigator
One of OSSOFF brand moves is to announce investigations – a response to his job to produce documentary films that examine corruption before his candidacy for the Senate.
“I think that in some respects, Congress has now neglected decades of time with the strong use of our control authorities,” Osov said in the city hall.
One investigation led to Federal Prison Supervision LawWhich imposed prison inspections and the creation of grievances to investigate complaints. But not all the reform movements succeeded. After announcing the two -party agreement in July to Ban stock trade in Congress – A major topic in the Osov campaign, winner against the Republican Senator. David Berdo – The deal went anywhere.
One question is the one who will be Osov Republican opponent. Kembe may probably refuse the most powerful candidate for the Republican Party, running. If you choose, The United States, MP Margori Taylor Green He is one of the potential Republican candidates.
Green can be the Osov dream opponent, and it seems that he is calling for her entry – as he bets on Anbrand in northern Georgia that will repel voters who have not been able to stomach Walker.
Either way, the race will not be cheap. OSSOFF collected $ 11.2 million in the first quarter in 2025 and is already spent significantly.
OSSOFF refuses to discuss potential opponents, but he says he is ready.
He said: “I welcome any competitor, and I am more than ready for any competitor.”
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