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Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) on Monday announced he’s seeking to challenge Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in the midterm elections.
Collins became the latest candidate to enter the GOP primary.
“I’m in,” Collins said in an X post accompanied with a campaign ad.
“I don’t know who Jon Ossoff really works for, but it sure as heck isn’t Georgia,” Collins said in the video.
“It’s time to send a trucker to the U.S. Senate, steamroll the radical left, deliver on President Trump’s America First agenda and put the people of Georgia back in the driver’s seat,” he added.
Watch the ad below:
I’m in. pic.twitter.com/Bxhm4e8jp2
— Mike Collins (@MikeCollinsGA) July 28, 2025
More from the Associated Press:
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.
Although Democrats have made Georgia increasingly competitive, Collins is among those who view Ossoff’s election as a fluke and proclaim that the state is still fundamentally conservative.
The 58-year-old Collins is the son of the late Mac Collins, an eight-term Republican congressman who lost his own bid for Senate in 2004. Mike Collins is a co-owner of a family trucking firm and made a losing bid for Congress in 2014. He reemerged to win a 2022 race for an open seat, portraying himself as an everyman trucker and hard-core Donald Trump acolyte. With a big, booming personality and an edgy social media presence, Collins calls himself a “MAGA workhorse.”
Kemp and Trump have met and said they would try to agree on a preferred candidate. Anyone anointed by both would be stamped as the Republican front-runner. Kemp told Collins and others last week that he would support Dooley, but Trump isn’t ready to endorse yet.
Former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley is expected to enter the race.
Just in: Former football coach Derek Dooley is taking steps to mount a bid for U.S. Senate in Georgia, building out a campaign team for a potential run against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff. #gapol https://t.co/QzX0U7tXdY
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) July 17, 2025
Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) has already announced his candidacy.
POLITICO has more:
Collins is the second Republican to hop in the party’s primary, joining Rep. Buddy Carter. Both Carter and Collins are courting President Donald Trump’s endorsement, with Collins including clips of Trump singing the representative’s praises in his announcement.
“He loves his state,” Trump said.
Collins sponsored the Laken Riley Act — which requires the detainment of any undocumented immigrant charged with theft or burglary — the first bill Trump signed into law during his second term. The act is named after a Georgia nursing student killed by an undocumented immigrant in Collins’ district.
Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate and face a favorable map in next year’s midterms with multiple pickup opportunities in competitive states, including Georgia, New Hampshire and Michigan.