Ossoff told an Atlanta crowd that Trump “promised peace and gave us war.”
He listed repeated claims by Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about victory, destroyed Iranian forces and achieved objectives that he said have not held up as the conflict reaches roughly day 170.
Ossoff said there is “something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war, treating citizens as fools and those who serve as pawns.”
He contrasted sailors on a long USS Abraham Lincoln deployment with Trump golfing, trading stocks and working on a ballroom.
The speech frames the midterms around higher costs, the unfinished war and alleged corruption.
Ossoff is running for reelection against Trump-backed Rep. Mike Collins and currently leads in available polling.
The attacks are also feeding speculation about Ossoff as a 2028 Democratic figure, which he has repeatedly denied.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/17/politics/trump-ossoff-midterm-elections
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6032550-ossoff-attacks-trump-iran-war/