“TRUMP FAILED GEORGIA!” Ossoff Blasts Over Healthcare Cuts, Medicaid Refusal and Soaring Costs

Hey, are you all ready to elect Keisha Lance Bottoms, the next governor of the great state of Georgia? Give it up as well for our friend from Kentucky, Governor Beshear. We are so pleased to host you and so grateful for your support for Keisha's efforts and all of our efforts. It's great to have you back in the Peach State. Welcome to all of you. We're here to knock on some doors, right? We're here to get out the vote, right? Are you all ready to work? Are you all ready to win? Keisha just told the story about Medicaid expansion in Georgia. And you all know that we're living through a health care emergency here in our state. We have among the highest maternal mortality rates in the country. We have among the lowest infant weights at birth. We have among the fewest mental health care providers of any state. Low life expectancy. We've lost 21 hospitals in 20 years. That's been a choice that Georgia's Republican leaders have made. Georgians pay the same federal taxes as everybody in every other state. Our state leaders have just refused to accept federal resources to help get people health insurance and to fund our clinics, hospitals, and nursing homes. Remember that 70% of Georgia seniors in nursing homes are covered by Medicaid. Half of all births in our state are covered by Medicaid. 40% of all kids in our state are covered by Medicaid. And when you sent me and Raphael Warnock to the Senate in those historic doubleheader, double overtime U.S. Senate runoffs, When we shocked the country, do you all remember how it feels to win? When we shocked the country with those victories, Raphael and I got to work on behalf of Georgians. We stood up to the drug companies and we capped the cost of insulin for seniors at $35 a month. We capped out-of-pocket expenses for prescriptions for seniors here in Georgia and across the country. And then we did something else. We added $2 billion to the federal budget to sweeten the deal for Governor Kemp and our state legislature to do the right thing and finally expand Medicaid. And they still said no. And that decision has sentenced our fellow Georgians to needless suffering and disease and injury and even death. It is a matter of life or death. Elections have life or death consequences. We must expand Medicaid in Georgia, and that's why we must elect a Medicaid-expanding Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms. And you all know that Keisha is a mother of four. Not only is Keisha committed to expanding Medicaid in Georgia, she's committed to guaranteeing every Georgia four-year-old pre-K. There are so many great things that we can achieve on behalf of our state. And the time has come for us to use the power that we have as citizens to elect Keisha our next governor and to rebuke this obscenity in Washington. Y'all saw the president was in making, reminding everybody of his tariffs that have driven grocery prices to their record highs, of his war based on lies that's driven diesel prices to their record highs, of his health care cuts that have thrown hundreds of thousands of Georgians off their health insurance and doubled your health insurance premiums. Donald Trump came to Georgia to remind Georgians of his failure, that it costs more than ever in American history to fill up your truck, to power your home, to stock your fridge, or to go to the doctor. Let me repeat that for our friends here with the press. Donald Trump came to Georgia yesterday and reminded everybody that under Donald Trump and Mike Collins, it costs more than ever to fill up your truck, to stock your fridge, to power your home, or to go to the hospital. They cut our health care. They lied us into war. And these tariffs have been a disaster, putting Georgia families, Georgia businesses, and Georgia farmers under so much pressure. And all the while, he's launched attacks on civil rights and voting rights. You all saw he sent Tulsi Gabbard and the FBI to Fulton County, Georgia, to raid your ballots. Do you all remember that? What a mistake he made, Keisha, coming to the cradle of a civil rights movement to launch that attack on voting rights. We are already seeing that the people's response is massive and determined and defiant. Let me share with you some things I hope will give you some hope. We are already shattering all-time records for youth turnout in a midterm election in the state of Georgia. And that is the work that you all are doing. That is the work that you all are doing, getting out the vote. When you go out there and you knock on these doors and you have these conversations with your neighbors, you're taking part in history. We're joined here by the tireless, effective, ferocious chair of Georgia's Democratic Party, Charlie Bailey. Give it up for Charlie. But you're taking part in history by going out there and talking to your friends and to your neighbors. See, some people just happen to live at times and in places where what we do matters more. And this year, once again in Georgia, that's us. What a privilege it is for all of us to live in the pivotal battleground state at this pivotal moment in our history. What we do for these next eight days will change the course of Georgia's history, will change the course of American history. And once again, the whole country is looking to us here in Georgia to see what we stand for. Are you all ready to make a difference? Are you all ready to get out there and work? Are you all ready to defeat the bigot congressman Mike Collins? Are you all ready to elect Keisha Lance Bottoms our next governor and win this Senate race? Let's get out there and knock on some doors. 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