PolitiFact rates the ad's claims Mostly False
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PolitiFact rated Ossoff's ad claims about Collins and Social Security Mostly False.
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Did Jon Ossoff’s Social Security ad fairly represent Mike Collins’s radio interview?
Jon Ossoff’s campaign ran an ad using Mike Collins’s words “get off of Social Security, get back into the workforce” to say Collins wanted to push beneficiaries off Social Security. Collins’s campaign said he misspoke and meant Medicaid; Ossoff’s campaign said the ad fairly reflected Collins’s support for pressuring beneficiaries into work. The full radio interview contains the surrounding discussion of tax cuts, Medicaid, Social Security, and work incentives.
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PolitiFact’s September 15, 2026 fact-check, rating Mostly False the combined claim that Collins “voted to gut Social Security” and “wants to push you off Social Security and back to work.” The rated statement is the September 2, 2026 ad, not the earlier one. The article carries both campaigns’ responses, including Collins spokesperson Meyer Siegfried, and its sourcing list names two distinct Ossoff ads: “Attacking (30s),” dated August 7, 2026, and “Important – Social Security 30s,” dated September 2, 2026.
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Published September 15, 2026, examining both the ad's truncated-quote claim and a separate "voted to gut Social Security" claim.
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The same fact-check quotes Collins spokesperson Meyer Siegfried disputing the ad's framing.
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PolitiFact's institutional Mostly False rating is an editorial determination directly disputing the accuracy of the ad's characterization of Collins's position, not straight reporting.
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The Dispute Index. "PolitiFact rates the ad's claims Mostly False". First published: 2026-09-16. Last updated: 2026-09-25. https://disputeindex.com/events/767-politifact-rated-ossoff-s-ad-claims-about-collins