Congressmembers are chameleons through and through. They will say one thing but almost always do the opposite.
But JD Vance has had enough and exposed a U.S. Senator as a flat-out liar during an unexpected trip.
Vice President JD Vance didn’t hold back during his Thursday swing through Georgia, blasting vulnerable Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff as a radical leftist who’s out of touch with hardworking Peach State families. Vance rallied support for President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, exposing Ossoff’s extreme agenda that puts Washington elites over everyday Americans.
At a bustling refrigeration plant in Peachtree, Georgia, Vance laid into Ossoff’s voting history, highlighting his blanket opposition to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This landmark Republican legislation, which Ossoff and his fellow Democrats shot down in July, promises real relief for Georgia taxpayers amid crushing inflation caused by years of liberal policies.
Vance warned Georgians not to fall for Ossoff’s upcoming reelection facade, where he’ll try to paint himself as a sensible centrist. But the facts don’t lie: Ossoff voted against protecting women’s sports from biological males and fought to keep a sneaky ban on new gas-powered vehicles, forcing families into expensive electric cars they can’t afford.
“So when you watch those TV commercials in a year and Jon Ossoff, I tell you, he’s going to pretend to be a reasonable moderate,” Vance said during a speech at a refrigeration manufacturing facility in Peachtree, Georgia. “But in reality, while Jon Ossoff pretends to be a moderate when he comes to Atlanta, he is a far-left liberal in Washington, DC, and that’s the only place that it actually counts if you’re a United States Senator.”
“Because Jon Ossoff, whatever he pretends to be in his television commercials, he doesn’t give a damn about the Third District, and he doesn’t give a damn about the people of Georgia, but we do, and we’re going to fight for you every single day,” Vance continued.
Georgians stand to gain big from the GOP’s tax reforms, with the average taxpayer pocketing an extra $3,086 in take-home pay come 2026, per a fresh Tax Foundation report from August 13. That’s money families can use for groceries, gas, or saving for their kids’ future—instead of funding bloated government programs.
Yet Ossoff has trashed the law as an “unmitigated catastrophe” for his constituents, whining about changes to Medicaid and food stamps that finally prioritize American citizens over endless handouts.
Ossoff even mocked Vance’s Georgia trip as “damage control” amid polls showing mixed views on Trump’s sweeping bill. Republicans counter that once folks see perks like tax-free tips and overtime on their returns next year, support will surge among the working class hit hardest by Democrat economic failures.
“Vance is being sent on this little errand to come and play defense in Georgia, defending a bill they can’t defend trying to sell the unsellable,” Ossoff said Wednesday on MSNBC. “And let me just say this about JD Vance … his legacy forever now is casting the decisive vote to throw millions of Americans off health care, throw seniors out of their nursing home beds all to serve the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country.”
Vance fired back hard, debunking Ossoff’s fearmongering by clarifying that Medicaid cuts target illegal immigrants, not law-abiding Americans who’ve paid into the system.
“I happen to believe that Medicaid belongs to American workers and American families,” Vance said during his speech. “I happen to believe that when you are struggling in this country, we are generous people, and we want to help you, but we want to help the people who have the legal right to be in the United States of America.”
“That’s what the Democrats never talk about,” Vance continued. “Why don’t we ask Jon Ossoff, ‘why did you vote to raise taxes? Why did you vote to keep illegal aliens on Medicaid? Why did you vote to bankrupt Medicare? Why did you vote to make sure that people who work overtime and earn their income from tips pay as much to the federal government as possible?”
Ousting Ossoff in the 2026 midterms is key for Republicans aiming to grow their 53-seat Senate edge, securing more wins for Trump’s America First agenda against the radical left’s obstruction.
Georgia’s GOP hasn’t settled on a single challenger yet, especially after Gov. Brian Kemp opted out, but heavyweights like ex-University of Tennessee coach Derek Dooley and Reps. Buddy Carter and Mike Collins warmed up the crowd at Vance’s event, all praising the president’s “big, beautiful” law while slamming Ossoff’s betrayals.
Collins leads the pack with 27% in an August TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics poll first reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation, though plenty of Republican voters remain undecided, leaving room for a strong anti-Ossoff surge.
An Ossoff spokesperson pointed to the senator’s Thursday remarks ripping Vance’s Atlanta-area stop.
“I think it is embarrassing for the Vice President to be coming to Georgia to sell a policy that is already resulting in harm to hospitals in the state of Georgia, that’s projected to throw more than 100,000 people off of health care in the state of Georgia,” Ossoff said.
“Just this week, Evans Memorial Hospital in Southeast Georgia said that because of the bill that the Vice President is here to defend, they’re going to have a $3.5 million financial hole next year. That hospital here in Georgia is now warning that they may have to cut the ICU.”
