Ossoff criticizes Trump on health care, Iran, 'corruption' in Augusta [View all]

Lowering health care premiums and returning consumers to financial affordability mean electing leaders instead of rulers, the state's senior U.S. senator said during a campaign swing through Augusta on Saturday.

With public criticism mounting against the Trump administration's handling of the economy, rising health care premiums and a war with Iran, Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff mounted an offensive to urge voters to fight for the ways of life he said they deserve.

"We were told MAGA was for the working class. Do you remember that?" he asked the assembly of more than 1,000 people at the Augusta Marriott at the Convention Center. "But this is a government of, by and for the ultra-rich. They are the elites they pretend to hate. That's why they gutted Medicaid and let health insurance premiums double for nearly 20 million Americans: to fund another tax cut for the rich."

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