Jon Ossoff, Democrats' most vulnerable senator, sharpens Trump criticism in a state Trump won [View all]

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.

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