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JO Jon Ossoff Jon Ossoff Jon Ossoff is a Democratic U.S. senator from Georgia, in office since 2021.

“When Eva's old enough to ask me why I let this happen, I'm determined to answer truthfully. ... I'll tell her how the same year she turned five, Georgia stood up all together, all at once and said enough is enough.”

The Warning with Steve Schmidt · US Politics · August 2026

“When Eva's old enough to ask me why I let this happen, I'm determined to answer truthfully. ... I'll tell her how the same year she turned five, Georgia stood up all together, all at once and said enough is enough.” — Jon Ossoff, The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Context

Clip of Sen. Jon Ossoff speaking on the campaign trail in Georgia, played on Steve Schmidt's podcast The Warning. Ossoff addresses what he will tell his young daughter about the 2026 election.

Transcript

The Warning with Steve Schmidt Around 08:47 into the episode
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…and slashed medicaid to cut taxes for their corporate donors in the aultar rich. They made you pay more for everything, and took us to war on lies, and spent most of last year trying to cover up for the world's most famous pedophile while the crook president and his crook family raked in billiards.

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…under assault, habeas corpus under assault. A full fledged attack by an autocratic movement with cult like characteristics against the greatest document for the preservation of human freedom ever written by the hand of a human being. That's what these people have done. And here may be the antidote.

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When Eva's old enough to ask me why I let this happen, I'm determined to answer truthfully. But I didn't. I'll tell her how the same year she turned five, Georgia stood up all together, all at once and said enough is enough. I'll tell her how we overcame every doubt and dirty trick, not just to win, but to set a new course for our state, in our country, and our world. Because Atlanta right there just waiting for us to pick it up and use it. And a wave is building, the kind of wave that comes once a generation when the people have been pushed too far and they decide altogether, all at once, to say what enough is enough.

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It is impressive. It is a signal that better days are ahead. It is a warning that accountability is coming. Appeasement of MAGA and Donald Trump has not only not worked, but it is a singular steam. The accommodation, the delusion, the notion that bipartisanship meant funding a giant ice army with a…

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