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Ossoff is now 37, in his first Senate term, and running for reelection in a Georgia that Republicans are convinced they can still win. He is also, whether he will say so or not, a figure Democrats are projecting something much larger onto. On Polymarket, the prediction market that has become a go-to gauge for pundits and the press, Ossoff sits at 14%, second only to Gov.

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In the 2010s and early 2020s, as he rose to Senate Democratic leader and then majority leader, it meant a coalition that included a large, engaged, and historically well-organized Jewish donor and voter base, to whom he pledged, repeatedly and at length, a kind of loyalty that went beyond ordinary politics. Now, that coalition includes primary voters in Michigan who nominated a candidate built in direct opposition to everything Schumer said he stood for on Israel, and Schumer decided that getting Democrats back in control of the Senate was more important than anything else.

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