Ossoff backers draw strength from health care, Comey actions

Jon Ossoff, left, a 30-year-old Democrat running for Congress in Georgia's traditionally conservative 6th Congressional District, and fiancee Alisha Kramer, walk up a driveway to knock on a door while campaigning in Sandy Springs, Ga., Thursday, May 11, 2017. Ossoff's fortunes in a June 20 matchup with Republican Karen Handel will be an early test of how the Republicans' vote to gut the Affordable Care Act and President Donald Trump's decision to fire the FBI director are playing with voters. Both parties see the Georgia race as an indicator for the 2018 midterm elections. (AP Photo/David Goldman) Jon Ossoff, left, a 30-year-old Democrat running for Congress in Georgia's traditionally conservative 6th Congressional District, and fiancee Alisha Kramer, walk up a driveway to knock on a door while campaigning in Sandy Springs, Ga., Thursday, May 11, 2017. Ossoff's fortunes in a June 20 matchup with Republican Karen Handel will be an early test of how the Republicans' vote to gut the Affordable Care Act and President Donald Trump's decision to fire the FBI director are playing with voters. Both parties see the Georgia race as an indicator for the 2018 midterm elections. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

By Associated Press May 14, 2017 4 min read

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) – The last time Harriet Zoller volunteered for a political campaign, she was too young to vote for the Massachusetts Democrat running for president.

“I was a Kennedy girl,” she says, smiling back to 1960.

Veronica Savoy’s previous campaign experience was volunteering multiple times for Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee.

“I’m not a political party person,” she explains.

Now, their shared concerns about Donald Trump’s presidency and the Republican agenda on Capitol Hill have drawn both women to the side of 30-year-old Jon Ossoff, an upset-minded Democrat running for Congress in the traditionally conservative Atlanta suburbs.