GOP super PAC drops $44M to unseat Ossoff in Georgia Senate race

The top super PAC supporting Senate Republicans announced Monday that it plans to spend an initial $44 million to defeat U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia.

The announcement from the Senate Leadership Fund came as the PAC committed an unprecedented $342 million to campaigns nationwide in key battleground states.

“Jon Ossoff, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris exposed Georgia families to open borders, crushing inflation, rampant crime, and a government that stopped working for them. Senate Leadership Fund is proud to commit $44 million to retire Ossoff and elect a Republican who will fight for common sense solutions in Washington.” said Alex Latcham, the executive director of the SLF, in a news release.

The commitment marks the largest investment the PAC has made in Georgia outside of runoff elections, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Ossoff is considered one of the nation’s most vulnerable Democrats in the midterm elections, running in a state that President Donald Trump won in 2024 with 50.7% of the vote.

However, while three Republicans fight for Trump’s endorsement in the primary to take his seat, Ossoff has been consolidating Democratic support by focusing on issues like anti-corruption and voting rights.

At a campaign event, Ossoff evoked the question, “What would the founders think if they visited us today?” After listing several accomplishments of the U.S., such as increased rights for women and people of color, Ossoff said they would also see some failures.

“They would see a nation that at the height of its wealth and power fell into the very traps they most feared. The dominance of special interests, bitter division between warring political parties, and a faithless president exploiting that rot to pursue the absolute power they overthrew, but they gave us the tools to fix this. They put the power in our hands,” he said.

U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter and former football coach Derek Dooley compete for Republican votes for the May 19 primary election. Although Collins has led most public polling, roughly 40% of likely GOP voters say they are still undecided.