DI has documented statements by Jon Ossoff on 2026 Midterm Elections, Antisemitism, and Artificial Intelligence, among other topics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.
Role at the time: U.S. senator from Georgia and Democratic candidate for reelection, in a newspaper interview
Condemned
Response to this claim
Collins’s answer at the Savannah event amounted to support for taxpayer-funded payouts to violent January 6 participants.
“Mike must recant his support for taxpayer-funded payouts to January 6 violent traitors, and Mike Collins must recant his 2020 election denial.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)A Jan. 6 exchange gives Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff a new line of attack on challenger Mike CollinsParagraphs quoting Ossoff's interview and Michael Fanone's response to the Collins campaign's clarification
Why we used this label
The reference point is whether Collins's answer in Savannah amounted to support for taxpayer-funded compensation for January 6 defendants. Ossoff treats the answer as support for payouts and demands that Collins recant it, which rejects the conduct. We used Condemned. Challenged the characterization does not fit because Ossoff adopts the critical reading rather than disputing a description. The quote is from the AJC's report of his interview.
An Ossoff campaign television ad used a portion of Collins’s radio interview—“get off of Social Security, get back into the workforce”—to argue that he wanted to push beneficiaries off Social Security.
“He wants to push you off Social Security.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)FactCheck.org review of Ossoff’s Social Security advertisement and campaign responsesOssoff advertisement, full radio quotation, and campaign responses
Why we used this label
The case asks whether the advertisement fairly represented Collins’s radio interview, and the advertisement is the conduct under scrutiny. By presenting the clipped excerpt as Collins’s position, the campaign asserts that its reading is fair. The closest competing label is “Condemned,” which would describe criticism of the advertisement; the ad criticizes Collins, not its own characterization of him.
Jon Ossoff voted Yea on H.Con.Res. 86, the Senate resolution directing the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
“On the Concurrent Resolution H.Con.Res. 86: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.”
A yea vote supported directing the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran, opposing continued U.S. involvement in the war without congressional authorization.
Relative to U.S. military involvement in the 2026 Iran war, Ossoff opposes the war, citing the absence of demonstrated imminent threat, clear objectives, exhausted diplomacy and congressional consent.
Abdul El-Sayed supports federal privacy guardrails for Flock cameras. Mike Rogers says states can act and opposes tracking people who have committed no crimes. The dispute concerns who should set the rules.
Trump backs company controls and outside audits for frontier AI. Critics want enforceable federal safeguards, and the White House now calls incident reporting mandatory without identifying enforcement mechanisms or penalties.
Larry Klayman sued Hasan Piker over his August 20 remarks about American Jews, seeking more than $150 million. Piker had earlier disputed the threatening interpretation.
At an Atlanta rally, Jon Ossoff said Donald Trump wanted to “travel with Natalie” on a Qatari aircraft instead of doing presidential work. Trump allies alleged misogyny and an affair insinuation; Ossoff defended scrutiny of powerful, taxpayer-paid aides.
At an August 11 event, Mike Collins said the federal government has a liability when it harms someone, answering a pardoned January 6 defendant’s question about compensation. Jon Ossoff called that support for taxpayer-funded payments to violent participants; Collins’s campaign denied automatic or blanket payouts.
Jon Ossoff’s campaign used Mike Collins’s “get off of Social Security” remark to say he would push beneficiaries off the program. Collins’s campaign said he misspoke and meant Medicaid; Ossoff’s campaign said the ad fairly reflected his support for pressuring beneficiaries into work.
The Washington Post reported in September at least 22 or 23 U.S. service member deaths in the Iran war, when the Pentagon's public database listed 18. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called the report fake. The Pentagon's count has since risen to 21.
At their first debate, Jon Ossoff said Mike Collins hired "half the Third Reich" for his office. News reports describe aides, a son-in-law and organizers with white nationalist ties. Collins says he condemns racism and fired people when problems arose.
An issue tracker recording where members of Congress and 2026 midterm candidates stand on the unauthorized Iran war, based on their votes on war-powers resolutions, campaign statements, and public remarks.
A congressional watchdog questions whether Caroline Craze's intern work matched her pay. Mike Collins's lawyer defends the payments, while Collins rejects the complaint and Jon Ossoff accuses him of misusing public money.
