Georgia Democratic senator Jon Ossoff participates in the Rally for the Republic re-election campaign event in College Park, Georgia. Photograph: EPABut there is something also in Ossoff’s slow-fast, lilting cadence and the no-tie-shirt-sleeves-rolled casualness that contains flickers of the emergent Barack Obama. As the first Jewish senator from Georgia, Ossoff has lost support among Jewish leaders over his sustained criticisms of Binyamin Netanyahu’s campaign in Gaza and has shown no inclination to deviate from that stance. Georgia Democratic senator Jon Ossoff participates in the Rally for the Republic re-election campaign event in College Park, Georgia. If he is returned in November after an outspoken, authoritative campaign as a second-term senator by Georgia, then he will belong to the first rank of likely Democratic White House aspirants.

Source: The Irish Times February 13, 2026 10:41 UTC