A decade ago, Jon Ossoff was a documentary filmmaker tweeting links to his BBC projects and tagging airlines in public posts to get help with booking issues. Today he is the senior senator from Georgia and the top target for Senate Republicans looking to deny Democrats any path back to the majority.
Ossoff’s rapid rise still grates on Georgia Republicans, who grouse about the “accidental senator.” But they take him far more seriously now than in 2020, when he won an upset victory over a former Fortune 500 CEO and incumbent senator.
At the start of the 2026 cycle, Republicans…
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