Jon Ossoff

The most brutally honest answer to that question is, you know, when you're facing the specter of Donald Trump potentially being reelected to the presidency and you have in the sitting president the presumptive nominee, it's understandable that you're not going to.

be inclined to do or say things that might weaken that presumptive nominee right against trump right given the threat that he posed and poses but you know i i think that look i think the other the other piece of this and one of the reasons that i think you know um

Democrats across the country, you mentioned, you know, they have this and I hear this everywhere, right?

Like this longing for public leadership, right?

And for folks to follow and for a clear voice and a clear rallying cry.

And I say this with all due respect to the former president.

And I think he achieved some pretty extraordinary things while he was in office.

Things that certainly helped Georgia on insulin prices and clean energy manufacturing, right?

but we did not have a powerful voice communicating and leading for much of the latter half of that term.

And that certainly contributed to the defeat in the election.

But what I think, what we need that we haven't had in a long time,

is a deep and compelling story and vision about where the country is and where the country needs to go.

And so the lack of a strong presidential voice for an extended period there took a toll, no doubt.

Yeah, definitely did.

Yeah, look, this will be the biggest Senate race of the midterms.

And I just keep happening to run in these huge consequential elections.

But I'm the only Democrat running for re-election in a state that Donald Trump won.

So I'm their number one target.

They want the seat.

And what, you know, a couple of Republican colleagues have told me privately is they also the GOP wants me gone.