Jon Ossoff, Democrats' most vulnerable
senator, sharpens Trump criticism in a
state Trump won
Posted By: NorthernDog, 7/12/2025 9:30:41 PM
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff stood before hundreds of potential voters Saturday to deliver what he called “a report from our nation’s capital” a half-year into President Donald Trump’s second term. How voters react in Georgia, which has taken center stage in the Trump era as a key battleground state, could help determine how the final two years of Trump’s presidency go — and how (or whether) Ossoff’s young political career continues. ''It turns out that when Donald Trump said he was going to fight for working-class Americans, what he really meant was he was going to take
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Jon Ossoff, Democrats' most vulnerable
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Outside the State Department Lose It Over Layoffs 22 replies
Outside the State Department Lose It Over Layoffs 22 replies
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In response, some flooded the lobby of the State Department
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It's the same old liberal tripe. I guess whoever is filling Ossoff's coffers wants to go full-blown woke.