Posted on 07/28/2025 4:31:29 AM PDT by CFW
ATLANTA - Georgia Republican Mike Collins said Monday that he will join the field challenging Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff in the state the GOP has named as their top target to add a Senate seat in 2026.
What we know: A second-term member of Congress from a district east of Atlanta, Collins becomes the newest top Republican to get into the primary race. U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter is already running, while state Insurance Commissioner John King dropped out. Also expected to run is former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley .
What they're saying: "Jon Ossoff must go," Collins said in a July 8 video. "He certainly doesn't represent the vast majority of Georgians. He certainly doesn't represent the Georgia values that I cherish so much.
Collins had been mulling a run since Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced in May that he would not run against Ossoff, depriving Republicans of their top choice to challenge a senator who won the 2021 runoff in the wake of the 2020 election. Twin victories by Ossoff and Raphael Warnock gave Democrats control of the U.S. Senate at the time and. It was the first time since 2002 that Georgia had two Democratic senators.
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Georgia FREEPERS, could you give us who is the best candidate to beat Ossoff?
If Herschel was the last answer there is no one. Lost opportunity again.
Ill vote for Collins. I wasn’t too excited about Buddy Carter. Ossoff has to go.
Ossoff is a post turtle.
Good! Much better than that deep state rat Raffensberger.
He’s got my vote too.
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