Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms team up to campaign as GOP competitors head to runoffs
Sen. Jon Ossoff and gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms are campaigning together in Georgia as their GOP opponents prepare for runoff elections. They aim to present a united front for the Democratic Party while focusing on key issues like economic and healthcare concerns. Both candidates are leading in early polling but face a challenging political landscape in a state that has leaned Republican in recent elections.
- ▪Ossoff and Bottoms are campaigning together as their GOP opponents face runoff elections.
- ▪The GOP gubernatorial candidates are Burt Jones and Rick Jackson, while the Senate candidates are Mike Collins and Derek Dooley.
- ▪Ossoff and Bottoms plan to hold their first rally together in Atlanta, focusing on economic and healthcare issues.
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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms are linking arms on the general election campaign trail in Georgia as their respective GOP opponents in the Senate and gubernatorial races are locked in primary runoff elections. For the next three weeks, Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial candidates, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and businessman Rick Jackson, and Republican senate candidates, Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) and former football coach Derek Dooley, will be locked in runoffs to see who wins the GOP nominations for each respective race. As the GOP candidates face off ahead of the June 16 runoff date, Ossoff and Bottoms, a former Atlanta mayor, are painting the runoff gap between themselves and their opponents as a display of Democratic Party unity.
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