Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff wins Georgia reelection, CBS News projects
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[0:00] Everyone, we have a CBS News projection
[0:03] in the state of Georgia. The state,
[0:06] >> that's right, Senator John Oaf has been
[0:10] reelected. According to a CBS News
[0:12] projection, he is actually the only
[0:14] Senate Democrat this year running for
[0:16] re-election in a state Trump won in
[0:18] 2024. He's the first millennial elected
[0:21] to the Senate and Georgia's first Jewish
[0:24] senator in that state. Democrats had
[0:26] been long feeling confident about his
[0:29] performance. He's an excellent
[0:30] candidate. He's an excellent fundraiser.
[0:33] People think he might be on the 2028
[0:35] presidential.
[0:36] >> This will add to that.
[0:37] >> This will add to that this early
[0:39] victory. A lot of people wondering
[0:41] whether he'll have the coattails to
[0:43] bring the fellow Democrat who's running
[0:44] for governor, former Atlanta mayor Kesha
[0:46] Lance Bottoms across the finish.
[0:48] >> Yeah, that's going to be interesting.
[0:49] He's so young as well, just 39 years
[0:51] old. It's an opportunity for us to go to
[0:52] the Senate Battleground big board here,
[0:54] the Family Feud Board. You see on the
[0:56] left, those are states that already have
[0:57] a Democratic Senate uh senator that
[1:00] Republicans are hoping to turn red. On
[1:02] the white, on the right hand side, the
[1:03] opposite. You see Georgia is a hold for
[1:07] the Democrats. That is not good news for
[1:09] the Republicans. That is how the night
[1:11] was supposed to go for Democrats. So,
[1:12] their plan is operational at this point.
[1:15] >> Tony, I wanted to point out to you, one
[1:17] of the things that Oop ran on was this
[1:19] idea of corruption. When we look at our
[1:21] CBS News polling as of tonight, we se