ATLANTA – Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Jon Ossoff is challenging incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue to a series of five live televised debates throughout Georgia, the Ossoff campaign announced Thursday.
Ossoff, an investigative journalist, won last week’s Democratic primary outright, avoiding a runoff despite a field of seven candidates. Perdue’s bid for the Republican nomination to seek a second six-year term was unopposed.
“Our country faces great challenges – public health and economic crises, unequal justice and compromised voting rights, and widespread corruption in our political system,” Ossoff wrote in a letter to Perdue. “Georgians deserve to hear candidates for office debating these issues publicly.”
Since capturing the Democratic primary, Ossoff has picked up the endorsement of one of his opponents for the nomination, Marietta businesswoman Sarah Riggs Amico. Amico, who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor two years ago on the Democratic ticket, came in third in the Senate primary to Ossoff and former Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson, who finished second.
Perdue and Ossoff will face off in the general election Nov. 3.