AJC: “So much for the calls for Republican unity…”
MAGA extremist Rep. Mike Collins and failed and fired former Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley are continuing to go after each other in the already “combustible” GOP U.S. Senate primary.
Yesterday, Collins released a new ad slamming Dooley for his failure to vote over 20 years. The Dooley campaign quickly shot back by calling Collins a career politician who is more concerned with his “next political promotion than representing the people of our state.”
AJC: Veterans Day ad highlights Republican discord in Georgia’s US Senate race
By: Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy, and Adam Beam | 11.12.25
KEY EXCERPTS:
- So much for the calls for Republican unity in the race to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff.
- In a new 38-second digital ad that opens with a tribute to the military, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins pivots to an attack on GOP rival Derek Dooley.
- The spot includes Dooley’s acknowledgement that he rarely voted over the last two decades during his career as a football coach before President Donald Trump inspired him to get involved in 2020.
- “I was immersed in my job as a coach,” Dooley said in the clip, which was part of a broader radio interview.
- The narrator fires back: “Tell that to the men and women risking their lives who still make time to vote.”