Jon Ossoff

But I think there's a deeper,

story here about corruption in American politics, which is something the Democratic Party needs to focus on, which is that Trump, in my view, is a symptom of the deeper corruption in our politics.

How is it that we have a demagogue who promises to tear it all down

elected twice to the presidency.

It's in part because much of the American public has lost faith in our political system.

Totally agree.

And with just cause.

Since Citizens United, this political system has been corruption on steroids.

And that is a big part of why policy doesn't serve ordinary people.

So as Trump poses this sort of radical threat to the rule of law and the constitution, things that we have to protect, we can't just become mere guardians of the status quo.

We have to be about change and reform.

And money in politics is like the root of all of this.

We have to focus on that.

The vast sums of corporate and billionaire money in our political system, with or without Trump,

are why ordinary people are so ill-served by elected officials and by Congress.

We need to take up that mantle and run with it.

And if we don't solve this problem, even once we put Trump back in the box in the midterms and once he's gone, the country will still be in deep trouble.

Yeah, all of these things and more.

I mean, I have been championing legislation to ban members of Congress from trading stock.

My campaigns have not taken contributions from corporate PACs or from federal lobbyists.