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Trump-Backed Candidate Wins Georgia Republican Senate Runoff

Rep. Mike Collins will win the Republican Senate runoff in Georgia, project the Associated Press and NBC News.

Collins, who represents Georgia’s 10th Congressional District, will now face Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff in November. Ossoff narrowly defeated then-Sen. David Perdue, a Republican, in 2020, in the same election Joe Biden won Georgia. In 2024, Donald Trump won the state.

The race is considered “leans Democrat” by the Cook Political Report. To retake control of the Senate, Democrats will need to gain four Senate seats this election cycle.

Ossoff almost immediately criticized Collins as an “extremist” in a X post Tuesday night.

“Donald Trump’s handpicked candidate Mike Collins is a notorious bigot, antisemite, and extremist currently under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars. Collins, who is only a congressman because his daddy was a congressman, voted to double health insurance premiums for more than a million Georgians, for the Iran........

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