Anthony Zurcher

It would be a very real headache for Democrats.

Yeah, that's definitely something I think some people will bring up, whether Democratic voters think about that enough.

It seems like it's a hypothetical problem, right?

You don't know that the Democrats have taken back the majority or not until after the election where Ossoff would have won or lost.

It's a little more difficult to put in a concrete way.

Now, Democratic insiders will definitely be pulling their hair out and worrying about that kind of a scenario.

But will voters who feel impassioned about this charismatic, young, Southern politician, would they care enough about that hypothetical to not vote for him?

I think that might be a bit of a higher bar for them to clear.

Yeah, 57 million in fundraising for his reelection campaign that Ossoff has raised.

That's by far the most of any Senate incumbent.

That's a remarkable sum.

And that shows for people who are thinking about his potential to run for president, that shows that he is a fundraising powerhouse and that he could pull in the kind of money on a national level to fund a presidential primary campaign.

That right there is a big marker that

This man has got some momentum behind him.

And if he wants to aspire to higher office, and to be quite honest, every senator looks at himself in the mirror or herself in the mirror and sees a president staring back, that he has the potential, the capacity to be able to mount a serious race.

You know, if his pitch is that he can win in battleground states and he can carry southern states that are going to be more and more important for Democrats in coming presidential elections, then yes, losing that state is not a great sign.

You remember Stacey Abrams, who...

Had a lot of interest, a lot of excitement when she ran for governor against Brian Kemp a number of years ago.

And she came close, but she lost.

And she still was somewhat of a player, still had a role in democratic politics.