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Rep. Mike Collins picks up GOP runoff in Georgia Senate race
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Mike Collins has won the Republican Senate runoff in Georgia, NBC News projects, setting up a race against Democratic Sen.
Key facts
- Collins, whose campaign had to file a fundraising report more recently because of the runoff, has raised $4.9 million and had $1.2 million in his campaign account as of May 27
- Ossoff won his seat in January 2021 by over 1 point, defeating GOP Sen
- Mike Collins has won the Republican Senate runoff in Georgia, NBC News projects, setting up a race against Democratic Sen
- In 2020, Joe Biden won Georgia by less than half a point
Summary
Collins’ primary victory over former college football coach Derek Dooley is also a win for President Donald Trump, who endorsed Collins a few days before Tuesday’s runoff election. Collins and Dooley met in the runoff after no candidate won a majority of the primary vote on May 19. Collins, first elected to the House in 2022, has pitched himself as a staunch Trump ally, saying in a recent debate that he is a “conservative workhorse.” And he has already started to lay out his case against Ossoff, who was elected to the Senate in a runoff following the 2020 election. Ossoff “doesn’t represent us, he doesn’t reflect our state and represent the people or our values,” Collins said at a rally in Cumming on the eve of the primary runoff.