Republicans have identified Georgia US Senate elections In 2026 as an opportunity to expand their margins on Democrats in the US Senate. After the Democratic Senator Jean Shaheen announced that she would not seek to re -election New HampshireAll eyes are in the Senate race in Georgia.
“Each state is a battlefield – Georgia, Michigan, New Hampsuire and Minnesota – playing a role in winning,” said Nick Boglia, the regional press secretary of the National Century Committee (NRSC) in a statement.
Senator John Osov, D-G., Senator in the first period that helped secure the democratic majority in 2021, is one of the only members of the Democratic Senate to re-election in a state President Donald Trump He won in 2024. Trump won Georgia in Georgia with more than two percentage points in 2024.
“John Osov He added, a democratic, who has extremist and reckless policies. Osov wants to allow biological males to compete in women's sports, and they took the back seat after the tragic killing of Knan Riley, who is very weak to stand on the extremists supporting Hamas in his party. Georgians deserve the best. ”
Senator John Osov speaks, d. (Megan Varner/Getty Emime)
The OSSOFF office did not respond to the Fox News Digital request to comment by the deadline for this article.
Georgia Ruler Brian KetepThe famous Republican Ltd. is the ideal candidate for the Republican Party in 2026 because it challenges OSSOFF and seeks to expand the majority of the Senate 53-47.
While the ruler did not announce an official offer of the US Senate in 2026, Kembe admitted in an interview with Fox News Digital last month, “We will have what we say on the road.”
“We need to turn this seat,” Kembe said. “We must have my fans in this seat, and I think we will have one after 26 elections.”
The governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, symbolizes an interview with Fox News Digital, first after his election, President of the Republican Referees Association, 20, 2024, on Marco Island, Florida, (Fox News/Paul Steinhauser)
OSSOFF, 38, became the first public generation to be elected to the US Senate in 2021, with former Senator David Berdu, R, in the surface flow elections.
During his fourth year in his position, Ossoff highlighted “the historical promotions of Georgia's infrastructure through the two -party infrastructure law,” his commitment to the support of the veterans of Georgia, the efforts made to secure relief after Hurricane Helen, and his beginnings in public safety and his work to expand Hildkari across the state.
OSSOFF has released a series of press releases that contradict Trump's executive measures since his return to the White House in January. OSSOFF led the efforts to cancel the Federal financing, and caused concern about the programs made by the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE) and refused Old Warrior Affairs Department Plans to reduce 80,000 jobs.
Sinator Georgia's voice against the draft law last week would have prevented biological males from participating in women and girls' sports, and told Atlanta magazine in a statement, “This bill has been overcome.”
The New York Times reported last month that a group of Jewish leaders from the two parties in Atlanta asked Keteb to think about running for the Senate seat in Osov. The message came after Ossoff voted to prevent the transfer of weapons to Israel and criticized Israel's dealings with the war in Gaza. OSSOFF is the first Jewish Senator in Georgia.
Osov was one of the 12 Democrats in the Senate who voted to pass the Laken Riley Law, which was called the 22 -year -old nursing student who was killed by an illegal immigrant while running at Georgia University last year. Laken Riley law imposes increasing penalties for uncommon migrants who are committing crimes in the United States.
Before his service to the US Senate, Osov, with his narrow campaign to represent the Sixth Congress in Georgia in the US House of Representatives in 2017.
In addition to Georgia, NRSC New Hampshire, Michigan and Minnesota set as major pendants in the battlefield in the mid -term elections 2026.
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Shaheen's declaration that it will not seek to re -election in New Hampshire could increase the complexity of the Democrats' efforts to regain control of the US Senate. However, 15 years have passed since the Republicans have won the Senate elections in New Hampshire.
Senator Jin Shaheen, DN.H, speaks before President Joe Biden arrived to make notes about reducing the cost of medicines prescribed at the NHTI Community College NHTI October 22, 2024, in Concord, NH (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
“Another one! Shaheen's retirement is welcome news about the Granite State that yearns for the new leadership. New Hampshire has a proud tradition of electing logical Republicans and it will do it again in 2026,” Senator. Tim ScottThe NRSC chair said in a statement to the Fox News after its announcement.
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Republicans also have their eyes on Michigan, where Democratic Senator Gary Peters announced that he would not seek to re -election next year. Trump Michigan won slightly more than a percentage point in 2024.
Senator Tina Smith, Die Men, also took her name from running for another period in the US Senate. Trump Minnesota lost more than four points to the previous one Vice President Kamala Harris And the operation of his colleague Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota.
