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scoop: Rep. Mike Collins is watching the bid for the Georgia Senate race to challenge incumbent Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff.
Republicans are salivating, and Collins argued in a video first-time Fox News Digital that Ossoff “must go.”
“This is by no means my plan to run for the U.S. Senate,” Collins said. “I love what I’m doing right now. I think I’m about the state, state. I love my area.”
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Rep. Mike Collins praised President Trump’s executive order for providing business drivers with English proficiency. (Getty Image)
“I mean, good, solid, hardworking people,” he continued. “But I also understand that sometimes you don’t do what you want to do, but what you need to do.”
Collins is a two-term member representing Georgia’s tenth congressional district, but has not said directly that he is playing, noting that he will first consult with his family and Donald Trump to determine that “we can be the best and most helpful help in this mission to ensure we get a Republican from Georgia in the U.S. Senate.”
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Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Ga). (AP)
The lawmaker became a staple on the road during Trump’s campaign last year, and his bill, Laken Riley Act, is the first time the president has signed the law in his second term.
Collins argued that Ossoff “does not represent the Georgian values I cherish so much,” noting that Republicans have largely dominated the state in recent elections, including Trump’s victory in November.
Still, Ossoff is seeking a second term in re-election, the first Democrat to win a Peach State Senate seat in about two decades.
“Did Rep. Mike Collins immediately want the Georgia people to give him a promotion after the vote was voted to take health insurance from 750,000 Georgians?” Devon Cruz, spokesman for the Democratic Party of Georgia, said in a statement to Fox News Digital in a statement.
Cruz continued: “Collins will join a crowded, chaotic elementary school that will seriously hurt Republican nominees, while Sen. Jon Ossoff is building huge momentum to welcome Donald Trump’s loyal fans at the finish line.”
Senate Republicans now see Ossov’s seat as one of the most viable flip opportunities in the upcoming mid-cycle of 2026, when the Republicans hope to keep and expand its thin majority in the upper floor room.
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Carter attended the 2018 subcommittee hearing on the Housing Energy and Business Environment. (Tom Williams/CQ scrolling through Getty Images call)
If Collins keeps sneaking into the game, he will face to face in the Republican primary with Rep. Buddy Carter, a fellow Republican of Georgia, and John King, insurance commissioner of Georgia.
Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican in Georgia, was considered a favorite against Ossoff, and Carter was the first Republican to compete and chose to give up his Senate bid.
Recent polls of the game found that Collins may have an edge over his Republican rival.
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The conservatively tilted Trafalgar Group found in an April investigation that Collins had a 23-point advantage over Carter, which led Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga. and King.
However, Collins still lags behind the Senate by five points in the confrontation with Ossov.
In another straw poll conducted earlier this month at the Republican state convention in Georgia, about 1,200 respondents, Collins received 39% of votes, while Carter’s 13% were surveyed.
