Anthony Zurcher
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But he is, as you point out, a very gifted politician.
And he has a future at only 39 years old, a long future in politics ahead of him.
favors come out.
He talked about corruption, obviously, and talking about Donald Trump's corruption and then pivots to try to turn it into an economic issue.
And that's kind of what we heard from Graham Platner last week in our program up in Maine, the Democrat talking about Donald Trump and the oligarchs and the billionaires and all of this, but then turning it into this is how people it's affecting people's everyday life.
So that is
clearly a Democratic strategy.
And if you listen to Ossoff do it, he does it in a kind of a less confrontational, belligerent sort of way, a little more smooth and polished.
But it is interesting, the rhetoric you hear from him, the anti-Trump rhetoric.
But then you look at how he has behaved during his six years as a senator so far, and he kind of governs as a center-left politician.
He backed bipartisan Republicans.
prison reform legislation.
He's one of the people spearheading that.
He helped pass a cap on insulin prices for seniors at $35, was involved in legislation trying to keep kids from being exploited online.
So he looks for areas where he can come across as more of a moderate and can try to reach across the partisan divide to actually get things accomplished.
So it's this blend of
gifted orator who is able to attack Donald Trump with the ability to actually get results for Georgia voters that I think has made him very potent.
And Ossoff has been more critical of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government compared to Shapiro.
So there's some perception among Ossoff's backers and supporters is that he could be the person to bridge that divide within the Democratic Party to be Jewish.
And he converted to Judaism because it's