Jon Ossoff, Democrats' most vulnerable senator, sharpens Trump criticism in a state Trump won

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Source: NBC News

July 12, 2025, 7:02 PM EDT


SAVANNAH, Ga. — Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff stood before more than 300 potential voters Saturday to deliver what he called “a report from our nation’s capital” a half-year into President Donald Trump’s second term.

How voters react in Georgia, which has taken center stage in the Trump era as a key battleground state, could help determine how the final two years of Trump’s presidency go — and how (or whether) Ossoff’s young political career continues.

“It turns out that when Donald Trump said he was going to fight for working-class Americans, what he really meant was he was going to take away your health care to cut taxes for the rich,” the first-term senator told voters wielding American flags and Ossoff for Senate memorabilia at a rally in Savannah, Georgia.

The message from Ossoff, delivered at the second major event of his 2026 re-election campaign, was clear. He cast Trump’s signing of a massive Republican spending bill to fund much of his agenda, dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill,” as deeply revealing of his priorities — which the Democrat said aren’t about making life easier for the working-class Americans that helped power his presidential campaign.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/jon-ossoff-democrats-vulnerable-senator-sharpens-trump-criticism-state-rcna216742

[wolfie001]

1. He's no FudderDudderman!

That's for sure! Stand for what is right!

[creon]

2. excellent

He is doing whamt je needs to do

[marmar]

3. My problem with this story is that it calls Ossoff.....

..... the Democrats "most vulnerable senator" without polling numbers to support the assertion. It seems to be all anecdotal based on the last election.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. It's because - GEORGIA!

The shock was that both he and Warnock won Senate seats there in what is a GOP trifecta state (both chambers of the legislatue and the governor are (R)s), and Warnock managed to win a full term (as a 2nd "win" after the runoff win a couple years earlier).

Here is who are up in 2026 for Democrats in the Senate - a fewer number than Republicans who are up (from here - https://www.senate.gov/senators/Class_II.htm)

Democrats

Booker, Cory A. (D-NJ)
Coons, Christopher A. (D-DE)
Durbin, Richard J. (D-IL)*
Hickenlooper, John W. (D-CO)
Luján, Ben Ray (D-NM)
Markey, Edward J. (D-MA)
Merkley, Jeff (D-OR)
Ossoff, Jon (D-GA)
Peters, Gary C. (D-MI)*
Reed, Jack (D-RI)
Shaheen, Jeanne (D-NH)*
Smith, Tina (D-MN)
Warner, Mark R. (D-VA)

*open seat

Of the states these Senators are from, only 2 voted for 45 in 2016 & 2024 - GA & MI (where MI has a (D) governor but GA has a (R) governor). Some runners' up for "vulnerable" might be the open seats in NH & MI.

[dsc]

6. He really is since MI and NH senators retired

Our other senators come from states that we really shouldn't lose in even a bad year and this year should be good.

[FBaggins]

9. It isn't hard to call him the most vulnerable democrat when he's the ONLY vulnerable democrat

We have four seats at risk (GA/MI/MN/NH)... but the other three have no incumbent democrat running... so the seat is at risk, but not a democratic senator.

[GiqueCee]

5. What will it take...

... for these inbred, web-footed crackers to finally understand that TRUMP IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR? He doesn't give two molecules of a shit about them! He's even flat-out TOLD them, "I don't care about you, I just want your votes!" And the idiots cheered. What part of "Malignant Narcissist" do they not understand? Oh. Wait. Of course! Too many syllables.
His "Big Beautiful Bill" has pulled the rug out from under them just to hand the soul-sucking oligarchs yet another tax break they don't need or deserve, and they're fine with it. That is until they realize that the large print giveth, and the fine print taketh away. Now they're in the Find Out phase of what happens when you're dirt stupid enough to believe that a veteran a con artist has your best interests at heart.
They deserve whatever fate befalls them. The rest of us do not.

[Dulcinea]

7. As a GA resident of 36 years...

...I can say that Ossoff has a pretty good chance of being re-elected. He's popular in metro Atlanta, & no one wins this state without doing well in the metro counties. Since Brian Kemp passed on a Senate bid, no one running against him is polling well. That said, all the local GOTV groups are pulling out all the stops to get him back to the Senate.

And, not everyone south of the Mason-Dixon line is an unwashed redneck. There are plenty of Dems in the South.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Kemp not running definitely helps!

I have cousins and an aunt in the metro Atlanta area (one of my cousins usually volunteers during early voting and she has lived in that area since she was in college there back in the mid-80s), so definitely plenty of (D)s there!