MSNBC: “A guy running for the United States Senate unfortunately misspelled his own state’s name”
Mike Collins, a MAGA extremist who has faced criticism for his “racist, antisemitic or xenophobic” comments, officially jumped in the Georgia U.S. Senate race yesterday, but became a laughing stock after posting a campaign launch video that spelled the name of the state wrong. Observers agree Collins’ campaign “did not get off to the best start.”
Collins’ entry follows a week full of intensifying “infighting” and tension among Georgia Republicans, including damning reporting from Fox News exposed a growing rift between Donald Trump and Brian Kemp as the two Republicans refuse to get on the same page about a “consensus candidate” and let the “proxy fight for the future of the Georgia GOP” continue in the Georgia Senate race.
See for yourself:
- “[Mike Collins’] campaign did not get off to the best start — as he made a spelling mistake in an ad posted to social media. He misspelled the word ‘Georgia’ at the end of a video.”
WSB-TV: Political ad for Mike Collins misspells Georgia: ‘Georiga, let’s ride’
- U.S. Rep. Mike Collins made his run for Senate official on Monday, and in an ad posted to the “Mike Collins War Room” account on X, there was a bit of a mistake.
- At the end of the video posted on Sunday, it ends with the words “Georgia, Let’s Ride.” But the word Georgia is spelled wrong. The text actually reads: Georiga.
FOX 5 Atlanta: Video supporting Rep. Collins misspells Georgia
- Rep. Mike Collins is running to be Georgia’s next senator, but a video posted to a team X account spelled the name of the state wrong.
- A video, posted on Sunday, calls out the two current senators for Georgia and calls on Georgians to “ride,” but instead of saying “Georgia, let’s ride,” it said “Georiga, let’s ride.”
- Several users responded to the video commenting about the spelling error.
HuffPost: ‘LET’S RIDE’: MAGA Rep Starts Engines On Senate Bid With 1 Embarrassing Error
- Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) began his bid for U.S. Senate with an embarrassing oversight this week after the name of his home state of Georgia was misspelled in video shared by his campaign.
- The congressman has shared other posts from the “War Room” page, which describes itself as the “official team account” for his campaign.
MSNBC: Morning Joe
- “Today, in the fine state of ‘Geooorrii-ga,’ where a guy running for the United States Senate unfortunately misspelled his own state’s name. How do you pronounce that?”
- “I like the swagger of the ‘let’s ride’ after you’ve spelled the name of your state incorrectly. That’s Mike Collins.”
- “Joe, what do you call that? …I don’t know what you twist out of that one…”
MSNBC: Way Too Early with Ali Vitali
- “In a video posted to the Mike Collins War Room X account […] Collins’ home state of Georgia was misspelled as G-E-O-R-I-G-A in bold white text toward the end of the video.”
- “Just a little spell check…”
Newsweek: Georgia Senate GOP Candidate Misspells Georgia In Campaign Announcement
- There was a slight error in Collins’ official campaign kickoff video: it misspelled the name of his home state, calling it “Georiga” in a brief graphic…
- “I would buy Mike Collins getting ‘most likely to run for Senate and spell name of state wrong in intro ad’ in his high school yearbook.”
The Daily Beast: MAGA Lawmaker Misspells Name of State in Senate Campaign Launch
- The campaign kickoff included one cringeworthy misstep: his campaign misspelled Georgia in one of its videos.
- More than 24 hours after the misspelled video was posted, it was still up on the campaign X page.
The New Republic: Republican Announces Senate Run—and Misspells State He’s Running In
- Collins […] stumbled right out of the gate, with an early campaign video that misspells the name of the state he’s running in.
- It all leads up to the [video’s] end card, which absolutely bungles the landing: “GEORIGA, LET’S RIDE.”
- “Take it down! Quick,” pleaded one MAGA account on X, with another conservative writing, “Please correct the spelling of ‘Georgia.’”
- The egregious typo adds to a colorful digital footprint for the lawmaker…