Shocking Poll Shows There’s One Republican Who Would Beat Jon Ossoff — And He’s MAGA’s Public Enemy No. 1
Left: (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Right: (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
A shocking new poll suggests that there’s only one potential Peach State Republican who would unseat Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in the 2026 midterms — and he’s MAGA’s public enemy number one.
Cygnal asked 800 likely voters in Georgia to indicate who they would vote for in a hypothetical matchup between Ossoff and five potential Republican candidates: Reps. Buddy Carter (R-GA) and Mike Collins (R-GA), former Senator Kelly Loeffler, Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John King, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Only Raffensperger, who rebuffed President Donald Trump’s demands that he declare him the winner of the state’s electoral votes in the 2020 election despite winning fewer voters there than Joe Biden, edged out Ossoff by a razor-thin margin of 44.3%-44.1%.
The next best finisher was Collins, who trailed Ossoff by 2.4%. After that came King (2.6%), then Loeffler (3.5%), and then Carter (3.9%).
Raffensperger became a national figure in January 2021 after he recorded a phone call in which Trump asked the state official to “find 11,780 votes,” or enough to put him over the top in the state. The recording was subsequently obtained and published by The Washington Post.
The secretary of state, alongside Governor Brian Kemp (R), subsequently became the subject of Trump and his following’s ire. In March 2021, Trump endorsed Raffensperger’s primary challenger, Jody Hice, for the Republican nomination for his position in the 2022 elections, declaring that “Unlike the current Georgia Secretary of State, Jody leads out front with integrity.”
Raffensperger easily dispatched Hice by nearly 20 points in the primary. Kemp also trounced his Trump-backed challenger, David Purdue, by over 50 points.
After years of tension between the two, Kemp and Trump reportedly recently met to coordinate on the upcoming Senate race against Ossoff, as both men harbored concerns about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) potential candidacy. Greene has since indicated she would not seek Ossoff’s seat.
The Cygnal poll was conducted between May 15 and 17, and carries a margin of error of 3.41%.
