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I'm joined by Georgia Senator John Ossoff.

Senator, welcome to the Midas Touch podcast.

Hey, people seemed pretty fired up at your first kickoff speech of the 2026 campaign season in Atlanta. What were you seeing out there? What's the reaction of the people right now?

It was a great event. And we did not even do that much promotion. We had thousands of people come out and just speaks to the energy that there is in opposition

to this attack on the rule of law and our Constitution.

And it was an opportunity for not just Democrats, but folks across the spectrum in Georgia,

to speak out together against what this administration is doing to our country.

Look, Georgia turned red this 2024 election. They voted for Trump this time around. What are

you hearing, though, from the people? Are you hearing that there's regret? Are people pissed off?

Or what's going on? That's actually one of the reasons I think it's so important to go right at him.

First of all, we have this spiral toward strong man rule and authoritarianism in the United States.

In his first few months, he's purged the government of independent watchdogs,

filled the most powerful offices

with personal loyalists. He's commanded them to go after his opponents. We're seeing the use

of fear and intimidation against the political opposition, unlike anything, I think,

in our republic's history. And he's so consumed by his efforts

to secure revenge and to crush his enemies and, you know, conquering Greenland that he's doing

nothing for the people who elected him. His entire domestic agenda is tax breaks for the wealthy, rounding up immigrants, revenge,

and centralizing as much power as he can in the presidency.

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