{"id":2116,"date":"2026-06-16T12:09:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2026-06-16T12:09:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:09:37","slug":"republicans-to-pick-senate-challenger-to-jon-ossoff-in-georgia-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2116","title":{"rendered":"Republicans to pick Senate challenger to Jon Ossoff in Georgia runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Republican voters in Georgia \u200bwill choose their U.S. Senate nominee in a runoff election on Tuesday, tapping either a congressman dubbed &#8220;MAGA Mike&#8221; \u200cby President Donald Trump or a political outsider backed by Governor Brian Kemp.<\/div><div>The winner &#8211; Representative Mike Collins or former college football coach Derek Dooley &#8211; will face Jon Ossoff, a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2028 and the only incumbent Senate Democrat up for reelection in a state that Trump won \u200bin 2024.<\/div><div>Collins finished first in the May 19 primary with 40% of the vote, 10 percentage points ahead of Dooley. \u200bTrump endorsed Collins over the weekend, calling him a &#8220;WARRIOR and WINNER&#8221; who supported Trump &#8220;from the very \u2060beginning.&#8221;<\/div><div>Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate but have limited opportunities to win additional seats. Their top targets are Georgia \u200band Michigan, two states the president narrowly won. But they have a tall task in unseating Ossoff.<\/div><div>Charles Bullock, a political science professor \u200bat the University of Georgia, said while Ossoff is more liberal than most Georgia voters, his office has a strong constituent services operation and he spends a lot of time in the state.<\/div><div>&#8220;Even Republican campaign consultants, activists like that, that I talk to are pretty much willing to concede that, \u200byeah, Ossoff&#8217;s going to be able to hold this seat,&#8221; he said.<\/div><h2>OSSOFF FUNDRAISING JUGGERNAUT<\/h2><div>Ossoff has raised $60 million and reported entering May \u200bwith nearly $33 million on hand. He is currently favored to win reelection, according to political prognosticators. Neither of his remaining challengers has raised more \u200cthan $5 million, \u2060and both reported less than $2 million on hand as of May 27.<\/div><div>The Democratic Senate Majority PAC has reserved $20 million in TV advertising in Georgia, and the Republican Senate Leadership Fund has pledged to invest $44 million into flipping the seat.<\/div><div>Democrats would need to net four seats in November&#8217;s midterm elections to win control of the Senate. Sabato&#8217;s Crystal Ball, a newsletter that makes electoral projections, shifted three \u200bstates toward Democrats last week, \u200bmoving North Carolina&#8217;s open seat \u2060to lean Democratic and Republican-leaning Alaska and Ohio to toss-ups.<\/div><div>Democrats have strong candidates in each of those states: former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, former Representative Mary Peltola of Alaska and former Senator Sherrod \u200bBrown of Ohio. Their candidacies are buoyed by Trump&#8217;s low approval rating and concerns over \u200bthe high cost \u2060of living, heightened by the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.<\/div><div>Senator Susan Collins of Maine is the most vulnerable incumbent Republican, representing a state that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris won by nearly 7 percentage points in 2024. She will face progressive oysterman Graham Platner, who overcame several \u2060controversies to \u200bwin the Democratic nomination.<\/div><div>Democrats believe they have also expanded the map of competitive \u200bstates to include Iowa and Texas, where Democratic voters nominated state Representative Josh Turek, a paralympian, and state Representative James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian. 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