参议员乔恩·奥索夫最近在华盛顿举办了一场筹款活动，邀请了几百名捐赠者和支持者参加——但这并非单纯为他自己筹款。
Sen. Jon Ossoff hosted a few hundred donors and supporters for a recent Washington fundraiser — but it wasn’t just for him.
据奥索夫的一名助手和一位获准匿名描述该私人活动的出席者透露，这场9月16日的聚会旨在为佐治亚州民主党及其协调竞选活动筹集资金。
Instead, the Sept. 16 gathering was geared toward raising money for the Democratic Party of Georgia and its coordinated campaign, according to an Ossoff aide and one attendee, who was granted anonymity to describe a private event.
这是他为提振州民主党士气所做更广泛努力的一部分，后者正寻求20多年来首次夺回州长宝座，并改善在立法机构中的席位劣势。就在11月大选前几周举办此类活动，显示出奥索夫对自己连任前景以及为自己筹集的巨额竞选资金充满信心。
It's part of his broader effort to boost state Democrats as they look to flip the governor’s mansion for the first time in over 20 years and improve their margins in the legislature. And the timing, just weeks before November, signals confidence in Ossoff’s own reelection prospects and the sizable warchest he’s raised for himself.
本月的活动是奥索夫过去两年举办的多场类似筹款活动中的最新一场。据一位熟悉其规划、获准匿名坦率发言的人士透露，他计划在大选日前为佐治亚州民主党和协调竞选活动举办更多筹款活动。
This month’s event was the latest of several similar fundraisers Ossoff has held over the last two years. He plans to host more fundraisers for Georgia’s Democratic Party and the coordinated campaign ahead of Election Day, according to one person familiar with his planning, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly.
如果他的举措成功，11月为佐治亚州民主党带来历史性胜利，奥索夫将巩固其在这一关键摇摆州严肃领袖的地位。在民主党着眼南方以巩固未来之际，他将守住参议院一个关键席位。他将部分归功于帮助前亚特兰大市长凯莎·兰斯·博托姆斯当选美国首位黑人女性州长。尽管奥索夫表示对参加2028年总统竞选不感兴趣，但主导11月的大胜最终将提升他的全国知名度。
If his moves are successful and November ushers in historic wins for Georgia Democrats, Ossoff will have cemented his status as a serious leader in the critical swing state. He would hold on to a crucial seat in the Senate as the party looks toward the South to shore up its future. He’d be credited in part with helping elect former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms as the country’s first Black woman governor. And though Ossoff has said he’s not interested in joining a 2028 presidential race, leading a November sweep would ultimately raise his national profile.
“在那个阶段，他完全有资格被称为[该州]民主党的领袖。他已经在逐步朝着这个目标迈进，”支持奥索夫参选团队的乔治亚州民主党策略师安德鲁·希顿（Andrew Heaton）说道。“如果这次选举能够取得许多人预期的成功，他将会获得其中大部分的功劳。”奥索夫的竞选团队除了确认了一些筹款活动外，没有发表其他任何评论。
“It would be hard to call him anything but a leader of the [state] party at that point. He's already inching his way towards that kind of designation,” said Andrew Heaton, a Georgia-based Democratic strategist who supports the ticket. “But if there is the kind of success that a lot of people are predicting for the cycle, he would receive a large portion of the credit for that.”Ossoff’s campaign did not comment beyond confirming the fundraisers.
这些活动只是奥索夫为重建乔治亚州民主党组织结构而所做的努力的一部分。此前，在2024年大选中遭遇挫折后，奥索夫将自己竞选资金中的360万美元转入了该党的统一竞选活动中（这一消息最初由《亚特兰大宪法报》（Atlanta Journal-Constitution）报道）。自7月这项计划宣布以来，该党已在整个州范围内设立了30个办事处，并雇佣了100多名工作人员，协助开展各级选举的基层组织工作。
The events are just part of Ossoff’s endeavor to help build out the Georgia Democratic Party’s apparatus after a rough 2024 election cycle. The senator has transferred $3.6 million of his own campaign funds to the party’s coordinated campaign to date, which the Atlanta Journal-Constitution first reported. Since the effort was announced in July, the party has opened 30 field offices across the sizable state, and employs more than 100 field staffers helping with grassroots organizing for races up and down the ballot.
这项统一竞选活动由奥索夫的前政治总监凯尔·特罗姆利（Kyle Tromley）负责领导。长期为奥索夫的竞选活动筹款的卡罗琳·索德克（Caroline Saudek）也在1月份加入了该州民主党，并担任筹款方面的职务。
The coordinated campaign is led by a former Ossoff political director, Kyle Tromley. Caroline Saudek, a longtime fundraiser for Ossoff’s political operation, also joined the state party in January in a fundraising-focused role.
来自该州各地的民主党人士——无论是人口密集的亚特兰大大都会区，还是大西洋沿岸的偏远地区——都表示，这次竞选活动的组织力度有了显著提升：从沟通的更加顺畅，到对那些知名度较低的选举活动的投入都更加到位。多位人士指出，这种转变始于查理·贝利（Charlie Bailey）担任党主席之后。贝利是一位来自哈里斯县（Harris County）的律师，也曾是该州的副州长候选人；他在奥索夫的关键支持下，于2025年中期成为了该党的领导人。
Democrats across the state — from the densely populated Atlanta metro to Georgia’s small sliver of Atlantic coast — said they’ve seen a marked difference in the coordinated campaign’s involvement this cycle, from consistent communication to investment in smaller-profile races. That transformation, several noted, started when Chair Charlie Bailey took the helm. Bailey, an attorney from rural Harris County and former statewide candidate for lieutenant governor, became the leader of the party in mid-2025 with Ossoff’s crucial support.
“这次竞选活动的组织力度确实比过去几年都要强得多，而且人员配备也更加完善——他们很早就开始招聘工作人员了，”希顿评论道。
“It is definitely a stronger coordinated campaign than I've seen in years, and in previous cycles. And it feels like it is better staffed, they staffed up earlier,” Heaton, the Georgia-based Democratic strategist, said.
共和党人也注意到，在这样一个直到2020年之前在最高级别竞选中还是共和党稳固票仓的州，民主党的竞选机器已得到显著改善。共和党内部已经开始担心众议员迈克·柯林斯（Mike Collins）是否有能力击败奥索夫（Ossoff）。民调显示，尽管共和党州长候选人里克·杰克逊（Rick Jackson）已自掏腰包投入数千万美元，但他与博顿斯（Bottoms）之间的选情依然胶着。
Republicans are also taking note of the newly improved Democratic machine in a state that, until 2020, was a safe-red hold for the most high-profile races. Already, GOP fears are growing about Rep. Mike Collins’ ability to beat Ossoff. And polls show GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson locked in a tight battle with Bottoms, despite having dropped tens of millions from his own bank account into the race.
佐治亚州共和党主席乔什·麦昆（Josh McKoon）对民主党的筹款努力不以为意，并表示他对共和党的实地资源感到“非常好”。
Georgia Republican Party Chair Josh McKoon shrugged off Democrats’ fundraising efforts and said he feels “very good” about Republicans’ field resources.
他在接受采访时说：“我们几个月前就已经部署了实地项目。我们在全州各地都有实地工作人员。”但他拒绝透露佐治亚州共和党带薪员工和志愿者团队的具体规模。其他人则没有那么轻视。
“We've had a field program in place for months now. We have field staff on the ground all over the state,” he said in an interview, though he declined to provide details on the size of the Georgia GOP’s paid and volunteer operation. Others aren’t as dismissive. “The Democratic Party has deployed resources to hire staff that mobilizes and turns out voters. Republicans have not had this competitive of a race in a while, so they don’t have that type of muscle memory,” said Ryan Mahoney, a longtime Georgia-based Republican strategist.
长期在佐治亚州工作的共和党战略家瑞安·马奥尼（Ryan Mahoney）表示：“民主党已经部署了资源来聘请工作人员，以动员选民并提高投票率。共和党已经很久没有经历过如此激烈的竞争了，所以他们缺乏那种肌肉记忆。”
“The Democrats are in such a great spot,” he added.
他补充道：“民主党现在的处境非常好，这是因为他们的竞选机制已经经过了考验，并且行之有效。”
“It's because the apparatus has been tested and is working.”