An ms.now opinion piece argues that Senator Jon Ossoff's merciless strategy paid off and other Democrats should take notes, pointing to combative victory speeches in which Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed told Mike Rogers, "You chose hate, and Michigan chose hope," and told Vice President JD Vance, "There is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January." It claims the midterms delivered the strongest rejection of a ruling party since 1974,Ossoff "pummeled" Representative Mike Collins, and forecasts a divided Washington, urging Democrats to convince voters the GOP must be viewed with contempt.