Jon Ossoff’s been exposed as a liar once again. This time in a new report from The Free Press on how Ossoff’s taken campaign donations from more than 70 billionaires despite claiming to oppose their influence in politics.
“Once again Jon Ossoff has said one thing in Georgia, then done another when he thought no one was looking,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia.
Read the Free Press’ story “The Democrats Who Attack Billionaires—but Take Their Money” here:
Jon Ossoff is widely regarded as the most vulnerable senator in the 2026 midterm elections. Faced with a tough reelection fight, the Georgia Democrat, 38, has settled on what he presumably thinks is a winning message: attacking billionaires and corporations, and their influence on American politics.
“The vast sums of corporate and billionaire money in our political system, with or without Trump, are why ordinary people are so ill-served by elected officials and by Congress,” Ossoff said in September in an appearance on Pod Save America, the popular podcast hosted by former aides to President Barack Obama. Speaking recently behind the lectern at a church in the Peach State, Ossoff insisted that he is fighting the “money that corrupts our politics.”
…[S]ince his first campaign and successful Senate bid in 2021, has attacked wealthy people who “manipulate elections.” But ahead of the 2026 midterms, Ossoff is just one example of a series of Senate candidates attacking billionaires and big corporations all while still taking money from the superrich and corporate-funded PACs, according to campaign finance records.
In fact, in Ossoff’s case, more than 70 billionaires have poured almost half a million dollars into his campaigns for the Senate and House since 2017. During the current election cycle, billionaire donors have included Democratic Illinois governor JB Pritzker, philanthropist George Soros, his son Jonathan Soros and wife Jennifer Soros, and Patricia Stryker—another liberal megadonor. Others include Amy Goldman Fowler, a real estate heiress, and Liz Simons, the daughter of the late Democratic megadonor and hedge fund manager James Simons.That’s in addition to cash transfers from PACs that have taken money from companies like Amazon, Home Depot, Verizon, Deloitte, Eli Lilly and Co., Boeing, and Pfizer, campaign finance records show.
The contradiction between Ossoff’s rhetoric and the sources of his cash are a reflection of the Democrats’ post-2024 identity crisis: a party caught between the elites who helped fund Kamala Harris’s $1.5 billion campaign, and progressive populists like Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani, who want to steer the party further to the left.
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Republicans are, unsurprisingly, eager to highlight that tension ahead of the 2026 midterms. Senators like Sanders and Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren have long pledged to refuse corporate-linked donations but also faced scrutiny for falling short of those promises.
“Jon Ossoff is a hypocrite and a liar,” said Nick Puglia, a spokesperson for the National Republican Senatorial Campaign, which works to elect GOP candidates to the upper chamber. “He says one thing in Georgia and does another when he thinks no one is looking.”
“The Democratic Party has long been the party of billionaires and millionaires,” said Alex Bruesewitz, a Republican political strategist and former Trump campaign adviser.
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Nathan Brand, a Republican political strategist, believes that tension is a weak spot for Republicans to exploit in 2026. “The phoniest politician is a Democrat who whines about money in politics,” Brand said. “Democrats’ dishonesty undercuts their entire message.”