Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins ended a press conference in Georgia after repeatedly declining to answer questions about his relationship with his son-in-law, who has promoted White nationalist ideology and circulated antisemitic content online.

Press Conference Cut Short

Collins, a two-term congressman from Georgia, was appearing at Monroe County Hospital to outline his health care priorities. However, reporters pressed him to address online statements from his son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, and whether Scheer had done business or campaign work for him.

Collins said the matter had been “fully addressed” and pivoted to attacking Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. He criticized Ossoff over transgender rights, federal spending, immigration, bail policies, and what he called “radical anti-Israel extremists.”

The questions followed a CNN KFile investigation into Scheer, who is married to Collins’ daughter, Summer. CNN found that Scheer had used his large social media following to promote White nationalist ideology, share antisemitic conspiracy theories, and circulate Nazi imagery.

Scheer has appeared in family photographs on Collins’ campaign website and social media and attended Collins’ Senate primary election-night party. Voter and property records reviewed by CNN indicate that Scheer is registered to vote at a Collins-owned house adjacent to the congressman’s estate in Jackson, Georgia.

At a press conference on Thursday in Washington, DC, Ossoff blasted Collins for not answering questions. “The congressman still, two weeks later, refuses to answer whether he or his businesses paid this neo-Nazi,” Ossoff said. “And today, facing these questions from the press corps in Georgia, Congressman Mike Collins ran away. He is refusing to answer questions, and Georgians have a right to know the answers.”

Original reporting: KTVZ (Central Oregon) — read the source article.