ROSWELL, Ga. — Early in-person voting begins Tuesday in all 159 Georgia counties, opening the final stretch of a midterm campaign headlined by the U.S. Senate race between Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff and Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins.
Voters will have through Friday, Oct. 30, to cast early ballots in person, with Election Day about three weeks away.
Tuesday is also debate night. Ossoff and Collins are scheduled to meet for their second general election debate, following a first debate that both campaigns have used as a springboard for new attacks.
Ossoff spent Sunday rallying volunteers at a Roswell field office before sending them out to knock doors. According to his campaign, the canvassers were working for Ossoff, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Keisha Lance Bottoms and Democrats down the ballot.
The stop carried history for the senator. The north Fulton suburb was central to the 2017 congressional special election that first made Ossoff a national figure, when he was a 30-year-old investigative journalist. Nearly a decade later, he is back defending his Senate seat during the second Trump administration.
In a statement released after the event, the Ossoff campaign pressed Collins to answer for what it described as ties to people in a far-right group, citing recent news reports, and said the senator would keep pressing him on the debate stage. The campaign also said Ossoff has transferred $3.6 million to the state Democratic Party coordinated campaign.
Ossoff also used the stop to back the Democratic challenger to U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick in the 7th Congressional District, which includes Roswell after redistricting.
