Over the weekend, MAGA extremist Mike Collins and failed and fired former Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley lobbed fresh attacks at each other as the GOP Senate primary continues to get messier.
The spat comes as one Republican strategist took to 11Alive’s Georgia Vote to outline how Senator Ossoff’s opponents “just aren’t measuring up” after he raised over $12 million in the third quarter of 2025 to his campaign account and has $21 million in the bank.
Politically Georgia: Cash Race
By: Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam
- U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, R-Jackson, said he raised more than $1.9 million for his Senate bid. His Federal Elections Commission report lists more than $1.7 million.
- So what gives? Collins also raised roughly $156,000 in contributions and transfers to a leadership PAC […]
- Collins’ aides first said he hadn’t put in personal money, then described the payment as a wallet-to-wallet cryptocurrency exchange that effectively amounted to a gift from the candidate himself.
- Former football coach Derek Dooley’s campaign cried foul.
- “Mike Collins lied about his fundraising numbers because he knew the only political outsider in this race was going to raise more than him in a fraction of the time,” Dooley spokesman Connor Whitney said.
- “This is another example of why Georgians are sick and tired of typical D.C. politicians like Mike Collins…,” Whitney added. “They’re cut from the same cloth and will say or do anything to stay in power.”
- Collins’ campaign fired back.
- “I guess we can’t blame the Never-Trump Dooley team for crying to reporters because they can’t understand simple math or federal campaign reports,” Collins spokesman Corbin Keown said. “If I were them and got outraised by Mike Collins while getting smoked in the polls and running a dumpster fire campaign, I’d be pretty upset too.”