One reason Collins lost Georgia

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In 2022, I held my nose and voted for Herschel Walker. He had held a gun to his ex-wife’s head, and he had a long history of mental health struggles, both of which he acknowledged. Women came up to me at church and asked what we had done. They had no idea until the negative ads started hitting. I’d been telling people this exact scenario would play out. Still, I told them it was in the past, not the present, and that we would do better next time. Walker lost the runoff. A lot of those Republican white ladies in churches across Georgia were the ones who refused to show up in the runoff.

Candidate quality and candidate character still matter.

This time, Georgia Republicans nominated a man who has surrounded himself with people no decent campaign or congressman should tolerate. Kip Talley, his chief of staff in the House, sat in a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer and wanted to get a Holocaust denier out of jail. Collins replaced him only in July. Brandon Phillips ran Collins’s House office, and then his campaign, despite a 2008 guilty plea for vandalizing a man’s tires and a woman’s property and a 2022 arrest for kicking a dog, and Collins cut him loose only after the campaign mocked a woman who had accused Matt Lauer of rape. Preston Parra, who interned for Collins and later worked for his leadership PAC, called himself a racist, posted “White Power,” and drew swastikas. Collins’s son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, lives on Collins’s property, was featured on the campaign website, shared Nazi imagery, and promoted Patriot Front. When reporters asked about him, Collins walked out of his own press conference. A senator does not just cast votes. He brings a staff to Washington for six years, and Collins has shown no discernment at all in whom he hires.

Georgia Republicans are asking voters to choose between a candidate who props up the communists and a candidate who props up the white supremacists, the Holocaust deniers, and the Nazi sympathizers. That is the actual choice on the Senate line in Georgia.

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