Hannah Yi
October 28, 2026 · Website
Senator Jon Ossoff’s Remarks as Delivered on October 28, 2026 at his Rally in Morrow
SEN. JON OSSOFF: Hello, Atlanta. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. First, would every veteran, every military service member, every military spouse, please raise your hand, if you can, and hold it high to be honored by all of us? Thank you so much.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: Now, Georgia, for nearly two years, we’ve seen our government transformed into a tool of one man’s personal vengeance and power and enrichment. We’ve seen insurance stripped from cancer patients and hospitals close services to fund tax cuts for the rich. We’ve seen prison camps for immigrants full of children. We’ve seen masked federal agents with license to kill demanding papers at police checkpoints. Each day, Donald Trump digs the moral pit deeper. But, Pastor Bryant, isn’t it in Proverbs that says, “Whoever digs a pit — whoever digs a pit will fall into it.”
SEN. JON OSSOFF: And, Georgia, over the last year, in defiance of his depravity, we’ve marched together in protest, and we’ve gathered at rallies like this one that just keep getting bigger and bigger. We’ve come together in small towns and big cities, in the mountains and on the coast, and on the Georgia farms that feed and clothe the world. And now, Georgia, with just six days to go, I’m here to tell you I have no doubt our victory is near at hand.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: In six days, our juggernaut coordinated campaign will have turned out the vote like never before to elect Josh McLaurin, Penny Brown Reynolds, Tanya Miller, and Democrats up and down the ballot.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: In six days, we’ll elect a Medicaid-expanding Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms. And in six days, Georgia, we’ll rebuke the crook President Donald Trump with such clarity and power that no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: Now remember, he promised to lower prices on day one. Instead, under the failed President Donald J. Trump, it costs more than ever in American history to fill up your truck, stock your fridge, visit the doctor, or power your home. They promised to drain the swamp. Instead, it’s the most corrupt administration of all time, and everybody knows it.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: And while the crook president and his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything. They doubled your insurance premiums and slashed Medicaid to cut taxes for the rich. They lied us into war and spent most of the last year covering up for the world’s most famous pedophile. You saw it.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: Now remember, they also promised peace. They promised peace. Instead, today marks eight months of a needless war that the useless, draft-dodging commander-in-chief can’t figure out how to end or how to win. Remember, last year they claimed Iran’s nuclear program had been obliterated. Do you remember that? And then this year, they told us it posed an imminent threat. Both times lies.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: On day four of the war, day four, the president declared victory. On day 11, Trump said, quote, “The war is very complete.” Day 13, quote, “We won.” Day 21, “Getting very close.” Day 32, quote, “Leaving very soon.” On day 40, the president declared, quote, “total and complete victory.”
SEN. JON OSSOFF: Today is day 243.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: 21 Americans are dead and hundreds wounded. Iran still has its uranium and drones and missiles, while diesel hits its all-time high. They’ve drained our stockpiles to achieve nothing, while the president builds himself a victory arch.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: And while the world burns, in Washington and at Mar-a-Lago it’s a spectacle of graft unprecedented in American history. The crypto payoffs and the crooked ballroom, the pay-to-play pardons, and the billions of your tax dollars backing Prince Don and Prince Eric’s investments. Never before has so little effort been made to cover up so much corruption.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: And here’s the bottom line: If you’re involved in any of this, next year you’ll be raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God, in front of the United States Congress.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: The Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights. But corruption in American politics runs a lot deeper than Donald Trump. It’s been running on corporate money, secret money, billionaire money, both sides.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern American history. Spectacular wealth buys an ever greater share of power over our national affairs. And I suspect many of you are here because you recognize that our task is not just to contain this one man’s wickedness, but to heal the brokenness that gave rise to him. That this moment is an opportunity not for restoration, but for reformation. And, Atlanta, if it takes a constitutional amendment to end Citizens United, we’ll deliver a united Georgia to ratify it.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: A united Georgia. Each day, our wave grows taller, and our tent grows bigger, because this isn’t just a campaign for Democrats. Folks come up to me at airports or on the street. They tell me they’re voting for a Democrat for the first time.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: Down in Valdosta, the mayor’s named Scott James Matheson, a lifelong Republican. We upgraded Moody Air Force together. And then when Hurricane Helene hit, we went together block by block and served hot meals to folks who’d just lost their homes. And when I got back to Washington, I delivered federal disaster aid for South Georgia. And now I’m honored to have conservative Republican Mayor Matheson’s support in this reelection campaign.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: See, just about every week, I call up Georgia mayors and pastors and farmers to find out how I can help. And just up the road from Valdosta, in Tifton, is Republican Mayor Julie Smith. And one day, Julie told me the Tifton hospital needed new dialysis equipment to serve patients with diabetes in twelve South Georgia counties. So I delivered the funds to upgrade that clinic, which can now serve 200 patients. And, like Mayor Matheson, Republican Mayor Julie Smith’s supporting this campaign, too.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: Up north in Toccoa, then-Mayor Gail Fry, another Georgia Republican, she told me Toccoa’s gas lines were wearing out. So I got to work and delivered the funds to replace them. And Georgia Republican Gail Fry’s supporting our campaign, too.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: Because, see, hurricanes and diabetes and gas leaks don’t check your party affiliation. And when it comes to serving Georgia, I don’t either.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: But there’s another reason so many Georgia Republicans are backing our campaign, and it’s the bigot Congressman Mike Collins. See, Brian Kemp was right about Mike. There’s a reason why Brad Raffensperger refuses to endorse him. Why conservative WSB radio host Shelley Wynter calls Mike a “bottom feeder.” Why one of the founders of the Tea Party said this summer, quote, “I cannot in good conscience vote for Mike Collins. He is unfit for office.”
SEN. JON OSSOFF: And that reason is that Mike Collins is a known bigot under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars, surrounded at work and at home by white nationalists and neo-Nazis, and unfit for any elected office in the United States.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: And in his pathetic, childlike devotion to Donald Trump, Mike Collins sold out our state. He voted every time for the war. He voted every time for the tariffs. He voted to double your health insurance premiums, and he voted for the biggest Medicaid cut in history. Listen to this, St. Mary’s Hospital in Lavonia is in Mike’s district, and they just closed their labor and delivery unit, citing those Medicaid cuts. So now, pregnant women Mike Collins represents have to drive an hour in labor to get to a maternity unit. And, Georgia, after all that, the bigot congressman is asking for a promotion. But in six days, we’ll end his political career instead.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: Now, what could drive Mike Collins to cast a vote that closes a labor and delivery unit in his own district? It’s not just the money that’s corrupted our politics. It’s a moral corruption. It’s the cynical indifference of powerful people.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: See, my office is known for world-class service. And what amazes me is how surprised people are to be treated so well. Nancy Lancy’s 81 years old in Jesup. Her husband died after years of dementia. She was worn out and alone, and now her affairs were all wrapped up in a labyrinth between the VA and the IRS and Social Security. So we took care of things for her. And I’ll never forget what she said about it. She said, “This was a new experience to have someone caring about me.”
SEN. JON OSSOFF: A new experience to have someone caring about me. How has it come to pass that for so many Americans the experience of genuine care is rare and surprising? Official indifference and corporate disrespect have become systemic. Instead of reading your daughter her favorite book that precious spare hour after work, you’re on the phone begging the insurance company to cover the medicine that prevents her seizures. The Army lost the records you need to claim your VA benefits, and it takes a year and twelve calls to fix it. You report the black mold to your landlord, but he doesn’t fix the leak, and the ambulance for your toddler’s asthma attack is followed by a 3,000 dollar bill. Daily life’s hard enough, and then you see the state of the world.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: I’ve got two little girls at home. Eva’s four, and Lila’s one, and I’m so grateful to this country for the security and opportunity that it affords them. But this isn’t the world I want to leave them. Soon enough, they’ll learn there’s now plastic in human blood and breast milk, that toxic forever chemicals are in half the country’s drinking water. Eva loves animal documentaries, and she’ll learn the butterflies are dying off. She’ll learn about the nuclear weapons that threaten annihilation. She’ll ask me why I allowed these things to happen.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: And, see, what fills us with dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against the massive stakes of our times. Tech titans build bunkers while warning the artificial intelligence they’re creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports, and the president builds a ballroom. An ancient establishment barely capable of email sleepwalks into a technological revolution, while the president dismantles precautions and calls us fools for worrying.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: So you see this scenario, and it fills you with dread. I get it.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: But, Georgia, we can and will reclaim control over our own destiny. We can and will meet our obligations to our children. And it begins with victory this fall. Because, Georgia, I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become. I refuse to accept that Eva and Lila will grow up on a poisoned planet rearming for world war in a country where we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world a thousandfold, but we refuse to guarantee health care for every citizen. When Eva’s old enough to ask me why I let this happen, I’m determined to answer truthfully that I didn’t.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: I’ll tell her how, the same year she turned five, Georgia overcame every doubt and dirty trick to not just win, but to set a new course for our state and our country and our world. That our generation didn’t shrink from its obligations to hers. That we mastered technology instead of letting it master us. That we restored American leadership toward peace and human rights. And that we guaranteed health care for every single American.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: There’s a portrait of Congressman Lewis right above my desk in my Senate office. And I promise you, his spirit is with us in this place right now. Even in his final months, he kept reminding us that we all live in one American house, in one world house. Do you remember?
SEN. JON OSSOFF: See, John Lewis knew and gave blood to make real what small men like Donald Trump and Mike Collins will never understand — that our national greatness flows not through our genes, but through our ideas and aspirations and care for one another. And from our founding ideals, despite our sins and through courageous struggle, the flame of American freedom has grown brighter and bolder and given hope to the whole world.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: But in the winds that blow today, that light is flickering. And from the Fulton County raid to the executive order attacking voting to the MAGA loyalists on our state election board — the election deniers and insurrectionists and their accomplices have made their intentions very clear.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: But, Atlanta, when voting rights and civil rights that heroes died to secure are under attack, we defend those rights by using them. And that’s why Georgia Democrats are answering with a mobilization so massive and a defense of voting rights so fierce that no plot against the franchise will foil the will of the people.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: Because how foolish of them to come to the cradle of the Civil Rights Movement to spread those lies and seize those ballots. Their attacks have only strengthened our resolve. And if we all do what we must do these next six days, the sound of feet marching to the polls will be heard in every corner of our state and way up on high where Congressman Lewis will look down and see a job well done.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: A wave is building, the kind of wave that comes once a generation, when the people have been pushed too far and decide all together, all at once, that enough is enough.
SEN. JON OSSOFF: We have six days, Georgia. And Georgia will bow to no king. Georgia, are you fired up? Are you ready to go? Then please welcome to the stage the 44th president of the United States, President Barack Obama.
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