Trump Ally Mike Collins enters the Georgia Senate race against the Ossoff Democrat

Republican Representative Mike Collins On Monday, announced its candidacy for the US Senate in Georgia, in a crucial race for the GOP while the party aims to extend its majority to the Senate in the mid-term elections next year.

Collins aims to challenge the Democratic senator Jon Ossoff, who presents himself to a re -election in the key state of the Southeastern Battleground that the president Donald Trump Too much in last year’s elections. And the Republicans consider Ossoff as the most vulnerable Senate of the Senate on the ballot in 2026.

“Jon Ossoff does not represent the values of Georgia and attacked the best interests of our state on each occasion. He voted to increase taxes on Georgia families, the area of inflation, open our southern border and allow men to play female sports,” said Collins in a statement when he launched his campaign.

Collins stressed that “This is the moment of Georgia. It is the time of the people to regain control of this Senate seat, to deliver to the first program of President Trump America and kick Jon Ossoff at the sidewalk – and together, that’s exactly what we will do next November.”

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The announcement of Collins is not surprising. Fox News Digital learned on Friday that the Congress member would launch his Senate campaign at the start of this week.

Collins, a businessman who founded a truck company, is in his second mandate representing the 10th district of the Congress of Georgia, which includes a wide strip of urban, suburban and rural areas between Atlanta and Augusta.

The conservative legislator, who is the son of the deceased republican representative Mac Collins from Georgia, is getting closer to the launch of a Senate campaign for weeks.

Trump’s team “ upset ” with the republican governor in the nomination race in the state of the battlefield of the battle of the battle

“The tires gave kicks. Supply,” said Collis on Monday in an article on social networks which was accompanied by a video where he presented his links with President Donald Trump.

“The member of the Mike Collins congress, he loves this state,” said Trump in a video clip.

And the launch video of Collins, which he published on social networks on Monday morning, also includes a clip by the president praising the member of the Congress, as well as visuals of Collins and Trump standing together.

Representative Mike Collins, R-GA., Leaves the meeting of the Caucus des Républicains de la Chambre at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. (Bill Clark)

The president of the Democratic Party of Georgia, Charlie Bailey, targeted Collins, accusing that he “is an extremist of Maga who wants to increase retirement age, voted against complete social security benefits for the first stakeholders, supported dangerous anti -Semetic rhetoric and supports a ban on federal abortion without exception.”

Bailey added in a press release according to which “this already disorderly primary will expose how much collins is out of step with the voters of Georgia when the Republicans become to prove who is most in line with the toxic agenda of Trump, the deep cups of Medicaid and the economic chaos”.

Collins was a leader of the president, the supporter while Trump first presented himself for the republican presidential appointment in the 2016 cycle.

During the 2024 presidential campaign, when Trump recognized the White House, Collins traveled in the name of Trump in the primary states and the crucial voting of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

He also appeared during several Trump rallies during the 2024 cycle and opened three Trump campaign offices in Georgia.

The Governor of the popular GOP transmitted an offer from the Senate in 2026

And Collins, without dealing with a difficult re -election in its secure headquarters at the red house, campaigned in ten districts of the congress across the country to help elect the candidates aligned by Trump while the GOP defended its thin majority as the razor in the room.

Collins, at the beginning of this year, reintroduced the Lake Riley law, which requires that undocumented immigrants responsible for burglary or theft be held. He bears the name of a nursing student in Georgia killed by a man who had illegally entered the United States, the case attracted national attention.

The bill, which quickly adopted the Chamber and the Senate controlled by the Republicans, became the first legislation signed by Trump when he started his second round of service in the White House.

A republican source said that Collins had a “big relationship” with the president and his political team.

And a Georgia -based republican consultant told Fox News that “the way in which Mike was going to execute is the first fighter in America who was with President Trump”.

Trump, who is the ultimate manufacturer of Kings in the GOP policy and whose approvals in the Republican primaries are extremely powerful, has not yet weighed on which he could return to the booming race of the Senate in Georgia.

National Republicans hoped to recruit a popular gop Governor Brian Kemp To face Ossoff. But Kemp, who is limited to term, announced earlier this year that he would spend a race in the Senate in 2026.

The Republican representative Buddy Carter, who, for a decade, has represented a district in coastal Georgia, launched a Senate campaign in the spring. Carter also courts Trump approval in the GOP primary.

The Republican representative Buddy Carter of Georgia presents itself for the American Senate in the mid-term elections of 2026. (Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)

Georgia John King’s insurance commissioner also appeared for republican appointment, but ended his offer on Thursday.

The former football coach of the University of Tennessee, Derek Dooley, who is the son of the former football coach of the University of Georgia, Vince Dooley, also plans an offer from the Senate. The young Dooley is close to Kemp, who is a longtime friend.

Sources in political orbit of Trump and republican sources in Georgia confirmed on Friday in Fox News that there was an agreement between the political operation of the president and Kemp’s political team That they would work together to find a candidate that they could all unify to face Ossoff in the race for the Senate.

These sources also confirmed that Kemp and Trump met a few weeks ago to discuss the Senate race in Georgia.

But when the governor launched the name of Dooley, a source close to the president’s political team said: “They were told to withdraw”.

Donald Trump shakes hands with the Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, after talking about a temporary rescue refuge while visiting the areas affected by Hurricane Helene, Friday October 4, 2024, in Evans, in Georgia. (AP photo / Evan VUCCI)

And when Kemp and his team progressed with Dooley, it upset Trump’s advisers, who, according to sources, were “already quite annoyed” that Kemp had adopted earlier this year to face Ossoff in the race for the Senate.

“We had an agreement to work together,” a political source from Trump Orbit on Fox News on Friday. “Kemp came out alone – who frustrated and annoyed Trump Orbit.”

But a source close to the governor told Fox News that he was not true in fact that they were told to retire on Doley.

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And the source added that Kemp meant what he said that he wanted to work with the president and his team and who stays like this.

A doley campaign announcement could arrive this week.