Election 2026

Jon Ossoff, Once the Senate's Most Vulnerable Democrat, Won Reelection by Running Against Trump's Corruption

Ossoff won handily and is now spoken of as a possible presidential candidate.

Joe Lancaster | 11.3.2026 11:03 PM

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Voters have clearly embraced Democratic candidates tonight—not necessarily because they like them, but because they like President Donald Trump considerably less.

Granted, a president's party is expected to lose seats in the midterms. But Trump has behaved so poorly during his second term that Georgia voters handily reelected Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, who was once considered a longshot.

In November 2020, when voters ejected Trump from the presidency, there were reverberations further down the ballot. In Georgia, two U.S.........

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