Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms stood before the congregation at Dream Center Church of Atlanta and told worshippers plainly to vote early and in person, with just days left before Georgia’s early-voting window slams shut. The pair wasn’t alone at the pulpit — Penny Brown Reynolds, a judge running for secretary of state, also urged the congregation to cast their ballots before time runs out.
Ossoff, the incumbent U.S. senator, and Bottoms, the former Atlanta mayor now running for governor, framed the visit as part of a broader get-out-the-vote push with early in-person voting ending Friday, October 30, according to FOX 5 Atlanta. Election Day itself lands Nov. 3, giving Georgians a narrow runway to cast ballots before polls open statewide. Reynolds, meanwhile, took her own turn at the pulpit to call on worshippers to vote, the station reported.
Souls to the Polls Drives Worshippers Straight to Ballots
The church’s push was part of its annual Souls to the Polls event, a tradition where dReam Center Church of Atlanta hosts a service aimed squarely at mobilizing voters, according to Atlanta News First. After the service wrapped, the church didn’t just send people off with encouragement — it physically transported voters to cast their ballots, the outlet reported.
Ossoff didn’t mince words about what he sees as the stakes of the race. “When somebody puts up $100 million against your name, against your family’s name,” he said, invoking the sum as evidence of the forces arrayed against him, per FOX 5 Atlanta’s reporting from the service. He also told the crowd the moment had arrived to pick up their power and rebuke what he called an obscenity, the station reported.
A Senate Rematch and a Governor’s Race Still Too Close to Call
Ossoff is a Democrat running for his second term in the Senate, and polling averages currently have him in the lead in that race, according to the Georgia Recorder. The governor’s race looks far tighter: a recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll cited by the Georgia Recorder put Rick Jackson at 46% and Bottoms, the Democratic nominee, at 45%, within a 3.1% margin of error — a dead heat by any reasonable read…