Another Republican joins race to unseat Ossoff

U S Rep Mike Collins File A second Republican congressman has joined the race to unseat U S Sen Jon Ossoff next year In a brief announcement on social media Monday U S Rep Mike Collins R-Jackson joined fellow GOP Rep Buddy Carter R-St Simons in the campaign to replace Democrat Ossoff with a Republican Currently both of Georgia s Senate seats are held by Democrats the other by Sen Raphael Warnock who will be up for re-election in Collins and Carter will face off first in the Republican primary next year Both have aligned themselves with President Donald Trump and his MAGA base of Republican voters Last week another Trump-aligned candidate Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King suspended his candidacy saying he saw little path forward to the nomination Collins a trucking executive stated his entry into the race with the words I m in on X In a second post he described himself as a conservative workhorse and America First fighter adding Chip in particular cash and I ll stay on the gas Collins added a video of himself driving a semi-truck In the video he touts Trump s big beautiful bill and banning boys from playing girls sports And he talks of writing the Laken Riley Act which requires federal immigration agents to arrest detain and deport immigrants who cross the demarcation illegally and then commit nonviolent crimes Riley a -year-old nursing scholar was murdered last year while jogging on the University of Georgia campus Both Ossoff and Warnock supported the bill which Trump signed in January But Collins in his video calls them California crazies Democrats fired back calling Collins a MAGA extremist aligned with Trump s toxic agenda deep Medicaid cuts and economic chaos The post Another Republican joins race to unseat Ossoff appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta