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I'm joined by Georgia Senator John Ossoff. Senator, welcome to the Midas Touch podcast. Hey, people seemed pretty fired up at your first kickoff speech of the 2026 campaign season in Atlanta. What were you seeing out there? What's the reaction of the people right now?
It was a great event, and we did not even do that much promotion. We had thousands of people come out. It just speaks to the energy that there is in opposition to this attack on the rule of law and our Constitution. And it was an opportunity for not just Democrats, but folks across the spectrum in Georgia to speak out together against what this administration is doing to our country.
Look, Georgia... turned red this 2024 election. They voted for Trump this time around. What are you hearing, though, from the people? Are you hearing that there's regret? Are people pissed off? What's going on?
That's actually one of the reasons I think it's so important to go right at him. First of all, we have this spiral toward strongman rule and authoritarianism in the United States. In his first
few months he's purged the government of independent watchdogs filled the most powerful offices with personal loyalists he's commanded them to go after his opponents we're seeing the use of fear and intimidation against the political opposition unlike anything i think in our republic's history and he's so consumed by
his efforts to secure revenge and to crush his enemies and, you know, conquering Greenland, that he's doing nothing for the people who elected him. His entire domestic agenda is tax breaks for the wealthy, rounding up immigrants, revenge and centralizing as much power as he can in the presidency.
And what are people saying about this hostile government takeover by Elon Musk, this unelected billionaire and Doge coming in with a wrecking ball, dismantling the federal government, attacking veterans, taking people's private data, social security data, medical records and saying, trust me, bro, we're billionaires. We ain't going to do anything bad with them. We just want to look at them.
What are people saying in Georgia?
It's incredibly unpopular. I think that there's even a significant amount of the MAGA movement that hates what Elon Musk has been empowered to do. You know, you got the richest man in the world who spent $300 million to elect this president being given the keys to the kingdom, unfettered access to sensitive personal information of Americans. And the incompetence
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