NPR: “‘My goal from the moment I was elected has been to serve the state with excellence,’ Ossoff told NPR at a campaign stop in coastal Brunswick. ‘To deliver for every part of the state, for everybody in the state, no matter their politics.’”

Atlanta, Ga. — New reporting from NPR highlights how less than 70 days out from Election Day, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is building unstoppable momentum and running for re-election on his strong record of serving the state, including delivering excellent constituent services and solving problems for Georgians through bipartisan investigations. 

This includes Georgians like 81-year-old Nancy Lancy, who lives in the “rural, mostly Republican southeast Georgia town of Jesup,” and who, according to NPR, received casework assistance after losing her husband and dealing with “battles with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service.” NPR reports that “a kind staffer got to work on her case, kept her updated and eventually resolved her issues.” 

NPR: Jon Ossoff, usually a head down senator, has found a formula to excite Democrats
By Sam Gringlas | August 27, 2026

KEY EXCERPTS

• On paper, Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia should be among the most vulnerable incumbents this year. He is the only Senate Democrat defending a seat in a state President Trump won in 2024. […]

• Ossoff arrived on the national stage three years earlier as he came close to flipping a suburban Atlanta House seat in an early test of the Trump resistance.

• Prior to that race, Ossoff had run a documentary film company focused on corruption — now a throughline in campaign speeches alleging graft in Trump’s orbit.

• “Our task is not just to contain his wickedness but to cure the rot that gave rise to it,” Ossoff told the Atlanta crowd. “That this broken moment is an opening not for restoration, but for reformation.”

• “He just knows how to boil it down,” Bruno says […].

• These speeches, which Ossoff writes himself, have become a sensation among liberal voters […]. Despite running in a purple state, where winning purely Democratic voters is not enough to carry a statewide race, Ossoff does not hold back in his blistering takedowns of Trump. […]

• None of this entirely explains polls suggesting Ossoff’s lead in battleground Georgia. One reason some prominent Republicans have offered is Ossoff’s focus on constituent services. Among his endorsers are the Republican mayors of Valdosta and Tifton in South Georgia.

• “My goal from the moment I was elected has been to serve the state with excellence,” Ossoff told NPR at a campaign stop in coastal Brunswick. “To deliver for every part of the state, for everybody in the state, no matter their politics.”

• That includes the rural, mostly Republican southeast Georgia town of Jesup, where 81 year-old Nancy Lancy lives on a few wooded acres along a creek where she feeds the deer every night. When Lancy’s husband died after a struggle with dementia, she was exhausted. Then came battles with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service.

• “Unbelievable stuff that I hadn’t even thought about because I had been thinking from minute to minute,” she says.

• Then Lancy saw a newspaper notice that Ossoff’s team would be in town offering help. Lancy says a kind staffer got to work on her case, kept her updated and eventually resolved her issues.

• “It was amazing,” Lancy says. “This was a new experience, to have someone caring about me.”

• This responsiveness is why Brunswick Mayor Pro Tem Lance Sabbe did not hesitate in making his choice for Senate, despite having voted for Democrats and Republicans in the past. He says Ossoff is often the first to call after a natural disaster and is well-versed on local projects.

• “He doesn’t flip open his notes,” Sabbe says. “It’s like he honestly cares and knows.”

• Ossoff has become known for his direct questioning of Trump administration officials during committee hearings, including a viral exchange pressing Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton, on who won the 2020 election.

• But Ossoff has also dedicated much of his Senate investigative focus to bipartisan probes on more staid topics like abuse in the foster care system, prison conditions and maternal mortality. 

• To be sure, some of Ossoff’s strength with independents may be more about voters’ discomfort with his Republican opponent, Congressman Mike Collins, who falsely insists Trump won the 2020 election in Georgia and has not disavowed his son-in-law’s social media posts containing white nationalist content and antisemitic conspiracy theories. […]

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