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Trump beats a longtime adversary with a late Georgia endorsement, and other election takeaways

Collins won the Republican runoff and will face Jon Ossoff in November.

Trump beats a longtime adversary with a late Georgia endorsement, and other election takeaways
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Rep. Mike Collins won Georgia’s Republican Senate primary runoff after President Donald Trump endorsed him, while Trump-backed candidates lost other high-profile contests. The results set up Collins to face Sen. Jon Ossoff in November and offer an early measure of Trump’s influence in Republican primaries.

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Mike Collins
R · GA-10

Georgia Republican Senate candidate who won the primary runoff

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Jon Ossoff
D · GA · SEN

Georgia senator and Democratic candidate for reelection

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Donald Trump
R · President of the United States

President whose endorsement of Collins became central to the Georgia Republican runoff

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Iowa representative whose Trump-backed gubernatorial campaign lost its primary

D.C.’s outgoing nonvoting delegate to Congress

Former president mentioned in connection with Keisha Lance Bottoms’s former administration role

Thomas Massie
R · KY-4

Kentucky representative cited as a Trump-backed primary target who lost

D.C. at-large councilman and Democratic nominee to succeed Eleanor Holmes Norton

Barry Moore
R · AL-1

Alabama representative who won the Republican Senate nomination runoff

Bill Cassidy
R · LA · SEN

Louisiana senator cited as a Trump-backed primary target who lost

Republican candidate who lost the Georgia Senate primary runoff

Karen Bass
Former U.S. Representative (D-CA)

Los Angeles mayor and mayoral candidate

John Cornyn
R · TX · SEN

Texas senator cited as a Trump-backed primary target who lost

ALSO MENTIONED  Alan Wilson, South Carolina attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate; Brian Kemp, Georgia governor whose preferred candidates lost the Republican contests; Burt Jones, Georgia lieutenant governor and Republican gubernatorial candidate who lost to Jackson; Donald Trump, President who commented on the possibility of Lewis George winning the D.C. mayoral race; Janeese Lewis George, Washington, D.C., city councilwoman and mayoral candidate; Keisha Lance Bottoms, Democratic nominee for Georgia governor; Kenyan McDuffie, Former D.C. city councilman and mayoral candidate; Mike Mazzei, Trump-backed candidate in Oklahoma’s Republican gubernatorial primary; Muriel Bowser, Outgoing Washington, D.C., mayor; Nithya Raman, Los Angeles city councilwoman and mayoral candidate; Pamela Evette, South Carolina lieutenant governor and Republican gubernatorial candidate; Rick Jackson, Republican candidate who won Georgia’s gubernatorial primary; Sid Miller, Texas agriculture commissioner who lost a Republican primary

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Trump Endorses Mike Collins in Georgia Senate Runoff

Donald Trump endorsed Rep. Mike Collins in Georgia’s Republican Senate runoff against Derek Dooley. The race was to choose the Republican nominee to challenge Sen. Jon Ossoff. Left-leaning outlets place the endorsement amid Republican divisions and concerns about Collins’s controversies or general-election prospects. Center outlets mostly treat it as a development in the GOP runoff and a test of Trump’s influence, often noting Brian Kemp’s support for Dooley. Right-leaning outlets foreground the endorsement and, in some coverage, Trump’s praise of Collins or the broader test of his influence.

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