Mike Collins on 2026 Midterm Elections

Mike Collins

Role at the time: U.S. representative from Georgia and Republican Senate nominee, speaking at the debate

Response to this claim

Collins fired the people around him whose conduct drew scrutiny once problems came to light.

“You know, Rick, that’s my family. That’s the craziness that Jon Ossoff has been spewing out there. I actually had a crazy person get put in jail this weekend, because he not only wanted to kill my son-in-law, but he wanted to kill me. And you’re exactly right. I’ve got a daughter and grandkids there, as well as my wife. I’ve condemned racism, anti-Semitism, hate. I don’t care where the source is. And I tell him that, too. It’s wrong. We have no place in this world for that. But I’ve never heard him say a word about his DSA pick up there, Abdul El Saeed, Hassan Piker. How about Reid Hoffman? None of those. He doesn’t denounce anybody or anything or condemn them, because he’s part of them. But yet he wants to take that and spew that on me. That’s not me. When I had things happen, I’m a businessman. I fired them. I got rid of them. Don’t need them.”

Mike Collins

Role at the time: U.S. Representative from Georgia and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate

Statement summary

Georgia Republican Senate candidate Rep. Mike Collins was asked at a campaign event with Sen. John Thune about the idea, which the questioner said some in the administration have floated, of federal troops at sites in some precinct areas. He said the last thing "we" want is for people to lack confidence in their elections and not show up, and that if that is something the administration decides it needs to look at, that is fine with him.

“The last thing we want is for people to not have confidence in their elections and not show up. So … if that's something that they decide that they need to look at, then that's fine with me”

Mike Collins

Role at the time: U.S. Representative, Georgia 10th district

Statement summary

Mike Collins voted Nay on H.Con.Res. 93, the House resolution directing the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.

“On Agreeing to the Resolution: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.”

Mike Collins

Role at the time: U.S. Representative for Georgia at the statement date.

Statement summary

Collins defends the military action as protecting America from the Iranian regime and ending its sponsorship of terror.

“the United States will no longer stand idly by while our enemies plot against us”

Mike Collins

Role at the time: U.S. representative and Republican Senate candidate from Georgia, speaking at the debate

Response to this claim

Collins improperly used public money to pay his staffer's girlfriend.

“That ethics complaint is bogus.”

Mike Collins

Role at the time: Mike Collins U.S. Senate campaign, through spokesperson Meyer Siegfried

Statement summary

Responding to a report that two county convoy captains had held leadership roles in American Patriots USA, a group founded by a former Ku Klux Klan leader, the Collins campaign said it had not known of their past associations and that their views do not represent Collins.

“The past associations of these individuals was not known to the campaign, and these views do not represent Mike Collins or the more than 800 Convoy Captains around the state that want leaders who will deliver a prosperous, safer, and more affordable Georgia.”

Mike Collins

Role at the time: Campaign spokesperson for Mike Collins

Statement summary

Collins campaign spokesperson Meyer Siegfried told PolitiFact that Collins was not talking about taking away earned Social Security benefits.

“He was not talking about taking earned Social Security retirement benefits away from seniors... Rep. Collins believes seniors who spent their lives paying into Social Security should receive the benefits they earned.”

Mike Collins

Role at the time: Mike Collins U.S. Senate campaign, through spokesperson Sam Densmore

Statement summary

The Collins campaign said the Social Security reference was a mistake, that he meant Medicaid, and that the Ossoff ad intentionally truncated the interview to mislead voters.

“Rep. Collins misspoke”

Mike Collins

Role at the time: U.S. representative from Georgia and Republican Senate nominee, speaking to reporters at the Republican Jewish Coalition leadership summit in Las Vegas

Response to this claim

The former staffers' objectionable views and activity came after they had left Collins's team.

“Those staffers — those views are abhorrent, and they don’t represent my values ... this was after they were on my team and gone ... I can’t see into the future, but regardless I still don’t agree with them, period ... We can vet all day long, but what happens when they leave and they go out into the future — that’s a different question. But I certainly don’t want people around me like that.”

Mike Collins

Role at the time: Mike Collins U.S. Senate campaign, through spokesperson Meyer Siegfried

Statement summary

A Collins campaign spokesperson rejected the claim that Collins had committed to pay January 6 defendants, while maintaining support for a process through which people wronged by the government could seek relief.

“Mike Collins fully supports holding the government accountable when federal agencies abuse their power and believes Americans who’ve been wronged by their government ought to have a path to seek justice. He does not support a blank-check fund or automatic taxpayer-funded payouts to anyone simply because they were prosecuted for January 6.”

Mike Collins

Role at the time: Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia

Statement summary

In answer to a question about an anti-weaponization compensation fund and relief for people the questioner said had been harmed by a weaponized political system, Collins said the government has liability when it harms someone.

“A lot of things have been politicized and weaponized. And when the federal government harms you, then yes, they have a liability to you. That’s easy, yes sir.”