Jon Ossoff: “Six years ago, when Georgians took those hard won rights and…”

“61 years ago in Selma, when John Lewis and Hosea Williams and Amelia Boynton marched into billy clubs and bullwhips, they didn't know that their movement would succeed. Six years ago, Six years ago, when Georgians took those hard won rights and set out to elect the Jewish son of an immigrant and a black pastor who holds Dr. King's pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church, we didn't know that our movement would succeed. But in 2026, if this man in the White House thinks that after all that he's going to come down here and silence the people of the great state of Georgia, he will be dealt his most resounding defeat yet.” (07:11–07:25)

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