Top Republicans have had it in for Senator Jon Ossoff and Abdul El-Sayed, both Democratic candidates for the US Senate, for a while now. As the November 3 midterms approach, campaign battles get more stinging, bruising – and at times, amusing. Ossoff, the incumbent senator from Georgia running for re-election, has long been in President Donald Trump’s sights.
But the 37-year-old Democrat can give as good as he gets. Just months after Trump called the Georgia Democrat “Senator Os(jerk!)off” in a Truth Social post, Ossoff hit home with a quip on the president’s zealous aide, Natalie Harp. While accusing Trump of not wanting to “do the job”, Ossoff remarked that the US president simply wants to “build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace".
Read more‘She’ll never leave me’: Who is Natalie Harp, Trump’s most devoted aide? The Republican response came swift and hard, with White House communications staff labeling Ossoff a “lightweight”, “Jon Jackoff” and “the biggest cuck loser”, among other epithets. El-Sayed, who is running in Michigan, has also been the target of virulent attacks.
At the Republican midterm convention in Texas, Senator Ted Cruz accused El-Sayed, whose parents are Egyptian immigrants, of seeking to implement Sharia law. Hecklers in the crowd roared back, “He should be shot,” sparking headlines in the US press. Weeks later, Cruz was at it again.
In an interview with a conservative radio show, the Texas senator warned of a “green-red alliance of Marxists and Islamists” who are “taking over” the Democratic party. In the 2026 US midterms, Ossoff and El-Sayed are both trying to defend Democratic seats in high-stakes races. The Georgia senator is running for re-election after serving his first term in the US senate.
In Michigan, El-Sayed is running for the seat vacated by outgoing Democratic Senator Gary Peters. The two candidates also happen to be running against two Mikes: Ossoff’s Republican opponent is Mike Collins, who currently holds a seat in the US House of Representatives. El-Sayed is taking on Mike Rogers, a former FBI agent, veteran and staunch Trump ally.
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