Democrats
Meet the 39 Out-of-State Billionaires Bankrolling Jon Ossoff's Campaign After Senator Denounced 'Billionaire Money' and 'Coin-Operated' System
Endangered Georgia senator Ossoff has been going hat in hand to liberal billionaires even as he rails against the corrupting influence of the ultra-wealthy on the campaign trail
Alex Soros (Ben Gabbe/Getty Images), Jon Ossoff (Joe Raedle/Getty Images), George Soros (Ben Hider/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)
Andrew Kerr
July 15, 2026
To Sen. Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.), the billionaires are to blame for driving the culture of corruption in American politics, and he has appointed himself as the man to put a stop to it. He could start by taking a look at his own campaign, which has accepted nearly $400,000 in campaign contributions from billionaires so far this election cycle.
Ossoff, a liberal who is widely considered the most endangered Democratic incumbent senator heading into November, has garnered presidential buzz—and a national profile—with his fierce denunciations of billionaires, the Trump family, and "the Epstein class." But his self-styled "grassroots campaign" for a second full term has accepted contributions from 39 billionaires since the start of 2025, according to Forbes and Federal Election Commission records.
Ossoff's roster of prominent billionaire benefactors, none of whom appears to be from Georgia, includes progressive megadonor George Soros and his son, Alex Soros, as well as Jeffrey Epstein associate and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, hotel heir and Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker (D.) and his sister, Harvard Corporation senior fellow and former Obama secretary of commerce Penny Pritzker, and Microsoft divorcée Melinda French Gates, contributions that, according to Ossoff's own logic, could make him beholden to their interests ahead of his own constituents.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/meet-the-39-out-of-state-billionaires-bankrolling-jon-ossoffs-campaign-after-senator-denounced-billionaire-money-and-coin-operated-system/
