Lynn Deutsch

“And remember, everybody was operating kind of from a space of panic, right? What the heck just happened? And when you talk about the areas that flipped, they’re generally highly educated. We didn’t just flip because there were Democrats who weren’t voting. We flipped because there were people who were independents, mostly, that said, ‘I can’t vote for Republicans any more.’”

Lynn Deutsch · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-16

Deutsch explained that affluent northern suburbs of Atlanta flipped because educated independents refused to keep voting Republican.

“There’s all this momentum, and there’s all these people excited, and things are going pretty crappy at the national level, and I probably then started to think, ‘Huh, this is interesting,’”

Lynn Deutsch · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-16

Deutsch recalled noticing the momentum building around Ossoff's 2017 special election campaign amid national political turmoil.

“I ran for mayor [in 2019] but I wasn’t going to do it by myself. So I convened all these women … and they had all helped on the Jon campaign. And they had all knocked on doors for Ossoff.”

Lynn Deutsch · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-16

Deutsch described how volunteers from Ossoff's 2017 campaign helped her 2019 mayoral bid.

“There was just an energy about him,”

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Deutsch described the enthusiasm Ossoff generated among volunteers during Trump's first presidency.

“When I ran in 2011 for the first time on council, I did it by myself. I had no idea what I was doing,”

Lynn Deutsch · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-16

Deutsch contrasted her first solo city council run in 2011 with her later mayoral campaign.