Jon Ossoff
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Jon Ossoff

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 5, 202614 min

The Democrat Senator Jon Ossoff is suddenly the name on everyone's lips. With his careful oratory and intangible 'it factor' comparisons have been made with a young Barack Obama. But who is the 39-year-old from Atlanta? Born in 1987 Ossoff grew up in Georgia where he attended a private school in the wealthy neighbourhood of Druid Hills. While at school Ossoff wrote to the civil rights leader and U.S. representative John Lewis who offered Ossoff an internship. He attended Georgetown University before moving to London to study at the London School of Economics. While in London Ossoff founded a...

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Thanks for downloading Profile. This week's presenter is Stephen Smith. Oh, you can't beat an acapella choir. And if you like what you hear, why not join me for three hours of barbershop on BBC Six Music every Sunday with Russell Grant. Those joyful refrains earn their place on this episode of the near prestigious Profile

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Programme because somewhere amid those harmonising tones is the voice of John Ossoff, a young American politician whose name is on everyone's lips right now. The way he prepares and goes after people in his hearings just creates these moments that are played over and over on cable news.

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They get picked up on social media. He occupies a demographic kind of sweet spot as like this young, dynamic figure who comes from a southern swing state.

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