Patricia Murphy
Calm down.
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff leaves the stage at a joint campaign rally with Democratic nominee for governor Keisha Lance Bottoms at the Tabernacle in Atlanta on Sunday. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)
He’s JB Pritzker in a JFK package. Gavin Newsom without the homeless crisis. Mayor Pete, but employed. Yes, liberals across the country seem to have found their Mr. America, their P.I.W. (POTUS-in-waiting), in Georgia’s U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff.
I hate to be the one to break it to progressives across America, but it’s not happening. Really.
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U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, seen here at a 2025 campaign rally in Savannah. (Sarah Peacock for the AJC)
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Patricia Murphy is the AJC’s senior political columnist. She was previously a nationally syndicated columnist for CQ Roll Call, national political reporter for the Daily Beast and Politics Daily, and wrote for The Washington Post and Garden & Gun. She graduated from Vanderbilt and holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Patricia Murphy is the AJC’s senior political columnist. She was previously a nationally syndicated columnist for CQ Roll Call, national political reporter for the Daily Beast and Politics Daily, and wrote for The Washington Post and Garden & Gun. She graduated from Vanderbilt and holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
