Georgia Senate candidate Jon Ossoff told a candidate forum audience that Democrats need to beat President Trump at the polls so badly that his voters won’t be able to show their faces in public again.
“We need to send a message that if you indulge this kind of politics, you’re not just going to get beat,” Ossoff said, “you’re going to get beaten so bad you can never run or show your face again in public, because we have had enough, absolutely enough of what we are getting from Donald Trump and his fellow travelers right now.”
Jon @Ossoff is out to cancel conservatism. In a new clip he says he wants to make it so Republicans/ Trump supporters “never show their faces again”
Ironic because most thought Ossoff would be too embarrassed to ever show his face again after burning $30M to lose his last race. pic.twitter.com/O3A352jWre
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) January 28, 2020
The comment, which resembled Maxine Waters’s appeal to Democrats to harass Trump supporters in the streets, prompted a response from National Republican Senatorial Committee representative Nathan Brand. “Sir, this is an Applebee’s,” Brand said. “In all seriousness, though, Ossoff’s outburst and disparaging comments about Georgia voters is simply another attempt to appease his radical Hollywood donors.”
Ossoff failed in his 2017 effort to win Georgia’s 6th District in Congress. The 32-year-old lost a special election to Republican Karen Handel despite raising $30 million in what ultimately became the most expensive House race in U.S. history.
Ossoff is hoping to clinch the Democratic nomination to challenge Sen. David Perdue, who is a staunch ally of President Trump.
“I’m running because we face a crisis of political corruption in this country,” Ossoff told MSNBC when he announced his candidacy in September.
In the first three weeks following his announcement, Ossoff accumulated approximately $800,000 and received an endorsement from civil rights pioneer Rep. John Lewis. The campaign reported raising $1 million in the fourth quarter.
