COLUMBUS — Back when politics were predictable and gas still cost $1 a gallon, a Democratic senator like Jon Ossoff , running for reelection with a Republican in the White House, would try to be acceptable to Democrats but also as inoffensive to Republicans as possible.

That Georgia two-step might have included a line like, “I’ll work with the president when he’s right, but oppose him when he’s wrong.”

But politics in Georgia are anything but predictable now. And Ossoff is the only Democratic senator in the country running for reelection in a state that President Donald Trump won in 2024.

So at events across Georgia this week, Ossoff ripped up the old Democratic playbook and set out on his own path, highlighting his work with Senate Republicans, warning of the existential threat of th

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