Jon Ossoff, Democrats' most vulnerable senator, sharpens Trump criticism in a state Trump won
How voters react in Georgia, which has taken center stage in the Trump era as a key battleground state, could help determine how the final two years of Trump's presidency go — and how (or whether) Ossoff's young political career continues.
'It turns out that when Donald Trump said he was going to fight for working-class Americans, what he really meant was he was going to take away your health care to cut taxes for the rich,' the first-term senator told voters wielding American flags and Ossoff for Senate memorabilia at a rally in Savannah, Georgia.
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