Current U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia is running for reelection this fall. But he’s already shown he’s presidential material for 2028. Watch this video and you’ll see why. Below that are snippets from a recent column on the senator.
From Michelle Goldberg in NYT:
If you were cooking up an ideal 2028 candidate in a lab, he — and let’s face it, it’s probably a he — would look a lot like Ossoff. He’s young and handsome, with a picture-perfect family: a beautiful wife who works as an obstetrician-gynecologist and two small daughters. He’s a Southerner from a reddish state with a history of wooing Black voters. And he’s a Jewish critic of Israel… [and he’s] following the playbook that’s worked against autocrats in other countries.
When he talks about Trump’s shameless looting, he radiates righteous indignation, like a millennial Atticus Finch.
Ossoff told Goldberg:
“We have to be reconnecting ourselves and the public with the pluralist tradition in American politics and its roots in our founding documents,” he told me after his speech last week. “I have found that the tradition of civil rights politics rooted here in Georgia and the South — the lessons that I learned from Congressman Lewis — have helped me keep true north in sight in a time when the cynicism is so deep that trying to call us back to our better angels is sometimes dismissed as naïve.”