Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia won another term on November 3 with about 59 percent of the vote, roughly 20 points ahead of Republican Mike Collins, in a state Donald Trump carried in 2024. He is 39 and the Senate’s youngest member. Barack Obama campaigned with him near Atlanta and compared his presence to a Kennedy.
That result moved him to the front of the Democratic conversation for 2028. On the prediction market Kalshi he was ahead of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A straw poll at the Crooked Con gathering in Washington gave him 38 percent, with Ocasio-Cortez at 17 percent and Pete Buttigieg at 14 percent. An AtlasIntel survey of Democratic voters had him only narrowly ahead of Ocasio-Cortez.
Ossoff has said he is not running. In an October debate he spoke of zero interest in the presidency and of serving out the six-year term. El País notes that people close to him also mention his two young daughters.