President Donald Trump has endorsed Rep. Mike Collins in the Georgia Republican primary for Senate, just days before the congressman faces off against Derek Dooley in a runoff election.
Trump’s Endorsement
Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, ‘Mike Collins is a true Friend, Fighter, and WARRIOR, who has been with us from the very beginning, and has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be your next United States Senator.’ Collins led Dooley by more than 10 points in last month’s primary election.
Dooley, a former football coach at the University of Tennessee, has the support of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who has had a complicated relationship with Trump over the years. Despite Dooley’s efforts, he appeared not to have made inroads in his bid for the president’s support ahead of Tuesday’s runoff.
Trump criticized Dooley’s long history of not voting in presidential elections and appeared to reference a Washington Examiner report that Dooley privately acknowledged that Trump had lost the 2020 election.
Campaign Controversy
Collins’ campaign has seen some controversy in recent weeks, including firing a top adviser who posted a disparaging tweet on the campaign account about the spouse of an adviser to a pro-Dooley PAC. Collins thanked Trump for the endorsement on Sunday morning and looked ahead to the general election.
Following the endorsement of his rival, Dooley said that he has ‘great respect’ for the president and looked forward to working with Trump in the Senate. However, he argued that Georgians want a political outsider who can actually beat Jon Ossoff, and someone who is committed to ending the careerism, corruption, and inaction from typical D.C. politicians like Mike Collins.
Original reporting: KTVZ (Central Oregon) — read the source article.
