The idea that Ossoff has terrible instincts and is DOA because of a vote on Israel 2 years before his election is insane at best and revisionist history at worst.
Need I remind you all, Ossoff was not carried into office by Biden’s and Warnock’s coattails. Arguably, Ossoff helped Warnock that year with his amazing campaign against an incumbent. If I remember, everyone on this board argued about how terrible Warnock’s campaign was in 2020 up until they both made it into the runoff. Conventional wisdom only changed after the runoff because Warnock performed .5% better than Ossoff, and that was due to Loeffler being far more disliked as Senator than Perdue.
I’m so glad you said this because I also think there’s been a lot of revisionist history about those 2020 elections.
Warnock was always going to make it to the runoff because the GOP contest was split between Kelly Loeffler and Doug Collins in the special election. It was arguably more impressive that Ossoff made it to the runoff in the concurrent general election since he was up against a much more entrenched, better known incumbent who had no intra party opposition.
Ossoff was almost a joke at the beginning of that cycle — only known as the kid who lost to Karen Handel in the 6th district race back in 2017. I remember being disappointed when he won the Dem primary that year because I was sure he had no shot. But he ran a really spirited campaign and he won me over.
That’s why I’m not underestimating him at all — even against Kemp.
