Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms team up to campaign as GOP competitors head to runoffs

Published May 26, 2026 2:39pm ET | Updated May 26, 2026 2:39pm ET



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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