Jon Ossoff

Jon Ossoff is an American politician, documentary film producer, and investigative journalist. He was sworn in on January 20, 2021 as the new U.S. Senator from Georgia, having beat Republican incumbent senator David Perdue in a special runoff election on January 5, 2021.

Ossoff was the Democratic nominee in the historically expensive 2017 special election for Georgia's 6th congressional district, which had long been considered a Republican stronghold. After finishing first, but without a majority in the all-party primary election, he lost the runoff with 48.2% of the vote to Republican Karen Handel's 51.8%. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• "Jon Ossoff." Wikipedia, revision of 6 January 2021. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Ossoff > Accessed 6 January 2021.
• Knott, Matthew. "Almost Australian: the Georgia run-off candidate with roots Down Under." The Sydney Morning Herald, published 6 January 2021. < link | archive > Accessed 6 January 2021.