GA-SEN, GA-GOV: Ossoff, Bottoms declare 'United for Georgia' at joint campaign rally in Savannah
There was no mistaking the message that incumbent U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff and gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms were seeking to drive home at a rally on Saturday in Savannah, not only to the thousand or so supporters gathered in a hall on a sweltering day in late June but to voters across the state.
Signs reading “United for Georgia” were everywhere, eclipsing the “Ossoff for Senate” and “Bottoms for Governor” placards. The two Democrats that top their party’s ticket this fall embraced at rally’s end and held their clasped hands high before the adoring crowd. The meaning of the gestures was plain: They have decided they cannot win in November without the public support of the other.
The rally, held at the Metal Building at Trustees’ Garden, was an hourlong, made-for-social-media event, a primer on electioneering in 2026. The candidates used a teleprompter to stay on script. Producers in earphones coached the sign-waving crowd directly behind the podium, which served as a colorful backdrop for the videos and soundbites that would be posted before day’s end.
For Ossoff and Bottoms, it was their first joint rally since state Republicans chose their candidates for U.S. Senate and governor in the primary runoffs earlier this month. With their opponents decided — Mike Collins in Ossoff’s case and Rick Jackson’s in Bottoms’ — the verbal knives were unleashed.
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