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Georgia is a traditionally conservative state where the Republican Party has been strong for decades. Rep. Ossoff was first elected in 2021 at the age of 34, becoming the youngest U.S. senator. Hyundai and Kia Motors factories are located in Georgia.
U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff (Democrat, Georgia) succeeded in re-election on the 3rd (local time).
According to the Georgia Secretary of State's Office, with 66% of the votes counted, Representative Ossoff secured victory with 1,787,060 votes (61%), far ahead of the Republican candidate, current Representative Mike Collins (1,162,303 votes, 39%). The Associated Press declared Rep. Ossoff's victory early this evening.
Rep. Ossoff, born in 1987, was first elected in 2021 at the age of 34, becoming the youngest U.S. senator.
Rep. Ossoff's victory is even more notable because Georgia is a traditionally conservative region where the Republican Party has been strong for decades.
Rep. Ossoff, who has further solidified his position within the party through his success in re-election in a difficult district, can also aim to join the race for the next presidential election. In an article on the 30th of last month, Bloomberg News selected Rep. Ossoff as one of the Democratic presidential candidates in the 2028 presidential election.
In particular, as a sitting senator representing Georgia, where Hyundai and Kia Motors factories are located, he is considered a politician with deep ties to Korea. Representative Ossoff visited Korea twice leading economic missions in 2021 and 2023. He had a series of meetings with political and business figures, including President Lee Jae-myung and former President Yoon Seok-yeol, who were presidential candidates at the time, as well as SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun.
He formed the U.S. Senate Korea Caucus in 2023, and Representative Ossoff's mother, Heather Fenton, participated in the Atlanta Peace Statue Task Force as a member of the construction promotion committee in 2017.
Ahead of this midterm election, Representative Ossoff held a campaign targeting Asian voters, including Korean Americans, in Duluth, the center of Atlanta's Koreatown, on the 3rd of last month. At this event, he criticized President Donald Trump's immigration policy, saying, "The past year and a half have been days of fear and harassment for immigrants."
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