Ossoff and Bottoms team up to campaign as GOP competitors head to runoffs

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms are linking arms on the general election campaign trail in Georgia as their respective GOP opponents in the Senate and gubernatorial races are locked in primary runoff elections.For the next three weeks, Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial candidates, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and businessman Rick Jackson, and Republican senate candidates, Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) and former football coach Derek Dooley, will be locked in runoffs to see who wins the GOP nominations for each respective race. As the GOP candidates face off ahead of the June 16 runoff date, Ossoff and Bottoms, a former Atlanta mayor, are painting the runoff gap between themselves and their opponents as a display of Democratic Party unity.“Mayor Bottoms and I will be proceeding together, united and determined,” Ossoff told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Ossoff and Bottoms are set to hold their first rally together on Sunday in Atlanta as they begin their general election campaigning. The two candidates will center the voter turnout event around economic and healthcare-related issues, according to CBS News.

“We are proceeding with unity,” Ossoff told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We are proceeding with determination. We are united in our shared belief that Georgia and the nation are in a state of crisis.”