Collins “delivered some of his most pointed attacks yet”

The AJC reported in Politically Georgia this morning that the already “combustible” GOP U.S. Senate primary is getting even nastier after newly reported audio from a recent event revealed how MAGA extremist Rep. Mike Collins went after MAGA “warrior” Rep. Buddy Carter and failed and fired former Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley for Carter’s inability to “move the needle” despite spending millions of dollars on ads, and Dooley for being an untested “experiment.”

Dooley, who has made the GOP U.S. Senate primary even more chaotic since his launch last week, wasted no time in firing shots back: “It’s not surprising that typical politicians like Congressman Collins start panicking when their dream of another political promotion is in danger.”

Read for yourself:

AJC Politically Georgia
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam | August 14, 2025

• At a Muscogee County GOP meeting this week, U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, R-Jackson, delivered some of his most pointed attacks yet on his Republican Senate rivals
  
• On U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, R-St. Simons Island: […] “Folks, you spend $3 million on ads, and you don’t move the needle, and you’re still running percentage points way behind me and I’m not in the race. That doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. Means you just didn’t fit.”
  
• On former football coach Derek Dooley:
  
  • “I don’t know about y’all, but I don’t know this guy. Matter of fact, I can’t even tell where he voted until 2024.
    
  • “The guy’s had 12 jobs in 10 locations and been gone from here for 25 years. We need somebody that is proven sitting in that seat…”
    
  • “We don’t need to go with a childhood friend and an experiment for something that is that important.”
    
• Dooley shot back: “It’s not surprising that typical politicians like Congressman Collins start panicking when their dream of another political promotion is in danger.”