Around nine out of 10 of Sen. Jon Ossoff‘s (D-GA) donors have come from out of state, his latest 2026 campaign report released on Tuesday showed.
Ossoff, who doesn’t have a standout GOP opponent yet but could face off agains Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) who is rumored to be considering a Senate bid, raised $11 million during the first three months of this year. The total is one of the highest ever raised by an incumbent in the first quarter of an off-cycle year, his campaign told Politico.
“I’m grateful to the hundreds of thousands of record-shattering supporters who have already joined what will be the biggest and most relentless turnout effort in Georgia history,” Ossoff said in a statement to the outlet.
The state is no stranger to outside money influencing its elections. 2022 Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker touted donations from 50,000 donors from every state. Previous Senate campaigns have seen Republicans rely on a “50-state strategy” to raise money.
Ossoff’s campaign said his average donation was $32 from 260,000 individual donors and over 155,000 first-time donors. Donors came from 156 of the state’s 159 counties.
The swing state is a top priority for both major parties in 2026. Ossoff won against then-incumbent Sen. David Perdue in 2020 50.61% to 49.39% in a runoff election.
A poll from earlier this year showed Kemp beating Ossoff 46% to 40% in a hypothetical Senate matchup. If Kemp runs and defeats the incumbent senator, it would make a Republican Senate majority more likely.
President Donald Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris in the state 50.72% to 48.52% in the 2024 election.
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The Georgia Democratic Party has faced turmoil since the election. Former Georgia Democratic Party chairwoman Nikema Williams resigned last month amid the DNC‘s concern that the party was not headed in the right direction. Calls for Williams’s resignation began after Trump clinched the White House. She faced accusations of mismanaging party funds and suggestions that her position in Congress restricted her ability to raise funds because of federal rules.
The Peach State’s Democratic Party is holding candidate forums across the state in the coming weeks to help determine its chair.
