Kamala Harris to campaign with Jon Ossoff as 2028 speculation swirls
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is headed back to Georgia to campaign with U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff in the closing days of his reelection fight against Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins.
Harris will headline a Fulton County Democrats dinner on Oct. 30 and campaign alongside Ossoff, part of a broader push by the former Democratic presidential nominee to visit battleground states.
Harris has also recently featured in fundraising appeals for former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Democratic nominee for governor.
The October visit will come four days before the Nov. 3 election and on the final day of early voting in Fulton County.
Harris is also stepping up her campaigning elsewhere, with plans for an October event in Nevada and stops for Democratic U.S. Senate candidates in other battleground states.
Her return to Georgia also carries some political baggage. Harris lost the state to Republican Donald Trump in 2024 by 115,100 votes after Joe Biden had narrowly carried Georgia four years earlier. Republicans will eagerly work to tie Ossoff to her political brand.
But Ossoff’s camp sees little downside in adding Harris to the mix. His advisers believe they can fire up Democrats while still making a play for swing voters and Republicans turned off by Trump and Collins.
The visit will inevitably draw more attention to the 2028 speculation surrounding both Harris and Ossoff. Ossoff’s rising national profile has fueled chatter about a White House bid, but he has repeatedly tried to squelch it. Harris has left the door open.
“We all, in one way or another, have chosen, no matter what your profession or what you do every day, in some small or big way, we have chosen to serve,” she said at an October 2025 stop in Atlanta. “And I’m not walking away from that.”
That hasn’t stopped Collins from increasingly portraying Ossoff as a politician more interested in national ambitions, as the Republican faces an uphill November battle.
Ossoff leads Collins in every major public poll and holds a crushing fundraising advantage.
At the Republican midterm convention in Dallas this week, Collins made the presidential speculation part of his case against Ossoff, casting the Democrat as someone who sees the election as “nothing but a steppingstone for their next promotion.”