Marion McKeown

I think first of all, you should be paying attention because I think I can say with some degree of certainty, although we know nothing is certain in American politics, that John Ossoff will be on the 2028 election.

Democratic ticket, either as a running mate or indeed as the main man.

Wow.

He's won, you know, he's been very, I remember covering his campaign when he was first running for Senate back in, God, 2020.

And he is, he was a real surprise at that stage.

He's 39 now.

He was 32, 33.

He was a young journalist.

He was a young Jewish guy.

This was when

Georgia was really deep red at that stage.

And it was astonishing that they managed.

They had two Senate seats that the Republicans held and they lost both of them.

They lost both of them to one, to a young Jewish journalist and economist and the other to Raphael Warnock, a black preacher.

And really, and I think the great untold story behind all of this was, of course, Stacey Abrams, who went hugely unrewarded.

The most, the Democrats most talented organiser, activist and everything who really went on this massive registration campaign in Georgia for Democrats really was never appreciated for the phenomenal work she did.

She ran for government.

She ran for governor twice and was defeated both times.

And the thing is, people don't like to talk about race in American politics, but Georgians were not going to elect a black woman as their governor.

They just weren't, even though she was one of the smartest people in the Democratic Party.