Fear Jon Ossoff

Youthful and good-looking, with a taste for soaring, idealistic rhetoric, he could activate the Democratic reflex to always look for the next JFK.

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Senator Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.) greets supporters at an election-night watch party in Atlanta, Ga., after winning reelection on November 3, 2026.

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Republicans have a lot of things to worry about after their catastrophic , and one of them might be , the newly reelected Democratic senator from Georgia.

The presidential buzz had begun even before Ossoff won reelection by 18 points in purplish Georgia, and it will get more intense now.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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