Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., has raked in a lot of money from out-of-state donors. Some GOP critics and Capitol Hill insiders have posited that the Georgia Democrat could not break rank during the previous government shutdown, and vote to reopen the government, or he could risk losing his significant support from far-left liberals around the country. (Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)
Several contributors from the billionaire class to Ossoff's campaign include members of the Soros family, tech billionaire Eric Schmidt, LinkedIn co-founder and a tech billionaire in his own right, Reid Hoffman, co-owner of the Atlanta Hawks, publisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and owner of Cox Enterprises, James Cox-Chambers, billionaire hedge fund manager Henry Laufer, and dozens of others.
In total, Ossoff's campaigns have received contributions from over 70 billionaires since 2017 when Ossoff first ran for Congress. Ossoff has touted his refusal to accept corporate PAC money, but according to election finance watchdog Open Secrets, some of Ossoff's top individual contributors come from major corporations like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta.
Open Secrets also shows that in 2023–2024 Ossoff received thousands of dollars from PACs representing lawyers and lobbyists, miscellaneous businesses, agribusiness and labor.
TEXAS DEMOCRAT WHO RAILS AGAINST BILLIONAIRE CASH TAKES $59K FROM TRUMP-BACKING MEGADONOR
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jon Ossoff speaks to the crowd while campaigning for Congress in 2020. (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)
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Ossoff is running for re-election in a state Trump won in 2024, albeit by a thin two-point margin. He first arrived in Congress in 2021 after defeating incumbent Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., in a razor-thin election that required a runoff.
During that first election cycle, Ossoff reportedly raised 60% of his contributions from outside the state of Georgia.
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