Ezra Klein

The way that he is performing his candidacy, the social media videos they're putting out, the fact that he is very conventionally handsome and young and could be in a movie.

Like AOC, he's very controlled in his media.

Yeah, he's not playing a volume game.

Not playing a volume game.

You don't see him on podcast interviews right now.

No, not playing a volume game.

I think that he has figured out a way...

in a broadly palatable ideological fashion to leverage a populist moral critique of the rot of Trump that can appeal across the different democratic factions, which is important, but also he's running for reelection in a swing state and is right now polling very well.

We'll see what happens.

But if you back up a couple of years, if I said to you in 2024,

Which of the, or 2022 or whatever, which of Georgia's Democratic senators is everybody going to be talking about in 2026 as a 2028 savior?

I think the answer would have been Raphael Warnock.

100%.

And instead, Ossoff is the one people are talking about.

And I was looking at Raphael Warnock's YouTube page because he's doing content.

But it doesn't have any of the visual grammar.

One thing that, you know, you see in a Mamdani, you see in a John Ossoff, you see in a James Tallarico, is we, this is not just like an age of algorithms, it's visual.

Very visual.

And, you know, you'll see Warnock and he's like talking in, you know, the Senate press conference setups and he's just like in front of American flags.

And Ossoff, they figured out, you know the clip like immediately when you see it.