Collins campaign focused on immigration enforcement and anti-transgender policies
Jon Ossoff raised at least $115.9m for his Georgia Senate re-election campaign, according to The Guardian. The outlet said the total outreased Mike Collins by many multiples and that Ossoff had never been behind Collins in the polls. The Guardian also reported that ties between Collins’s campaign staff and white nationalists, neo-Nazis and far-right extremists became an issue in Collins’s campaign.
The Guardian reported that Ossoff made his re-election campaign a referendum on the Trump administration. His campaign highlighted what it described as self-serving stock trades and business deals by the president and those in the president’s orbit, along with the consequences of the war in Iran and Trump’s trade policies for Georgia voters’ pocketbooks.
Collins ran a campaign focused on immigration enforcement and anti-transgender policies, The Guardian reported. CNN reporting cited by The Guardian said Collins’s son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, had worked with Collins’s trucking business and advocated white supremacist and Nazi views online.
The Guardian also reported that Collins’s former chief of staff, Kip Talley, and other aides had met with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer, whom the outlet identified as white nationalists. Fuentes and Spencer had been asking Collins’s office to intervene on behalf of Charles C Johnson, according to The Guardian.
The Guardian described Johnson as a Holocaust denier and right-wing activist who was incarcerated on contempt of court charges.
Ossoff repeatedly raised Collins’s connections to white nationalists, neo-Nazis and far-right extremists at debates and in campaign advertising, The Guardian reported.
Ossoff was re-elected to the Senate in Georgia after defeating Collins, his Republican challenger, in the 2026 midterm elections, The Guardian reported.