Ossoff: Jag har noll intresse av att bli president
Georgiademokraten Jon Ossoff säger att han tänker sitta på sin senatorspost i hela den sex år långa mandatperioden om han blir återvald.
– Jag har noll intresse av att kampanja för presidentposten. Jag kampanjar inte för att bli president, jag vill bli återvald till senaten, säger han enligt amerikanska medier.
Trots att han upprepade gånger har gjort liknande uttalanden fortsätter Ossoff att vara en av förhandsfavoriterna till att bli Demokraternas presidentkandidat i 2028 års val. Även namn som Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom och Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez nämns i det sammanhanget.
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Jon Ossoff
Wikipedia (en)
Thomas Jonathan Ossoff ( OSS-off; born February 16, 1987) is an American politician who has served as the senior United States senator from Georgia since 2021. He is the youngest incumbent U.S. senator, and a member of the Democratic Party.
Raised in Metro Atlanta, Ossoff graduated from Georgetown University and the London School of Economics. He worked as a national security staffer and legislative assistant for U.S. representative Hank Johnson and afterward was managing director of an investigative documentary production company. He first ran for Congress in a 2017 special election, narrowly losing a seat that had long been considered a Republican stronghold.
Ossoff was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2021, defeating Republican incumbent David Perdue in a runoff. Ossoff was elected alongside Raphael Warnock on the same day, which was critical in securing a 50–50 Senate majority for Democrats, with vice president Kamala Harris serving as the tie-breaking vote. Ossoff is the youngest person elected to the Senate since 1980, the first senator born in the 1980s, and the first millennial United States senator. Alongside Warnock, he is one of only two Democrats to represent Georgia in the United States Senate since Zell Miller left office in 2005.
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