Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) took aim at Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) in his first campaign ad since the Republican won the Senate GOP primary runoff election late Tuesday.The two will be facing off in the general election, with the Democratic incumbent looking to hold onto his seat for a second term.In the new ad, Ossoff’s reelection campaign targeted the Republican challenger’s history in the trucking business, specifically how Collins didn’t work his way from the ground up in the trucking industry.
“Truth is, Mike took over his dad’s trucking company and followed in his footsteps straight to Congress,” a narrator said in the two-minute video.
Former Rep. Mac Collins, who served in the House between 1993 and 2005, once owned Collins Trucking in Jackson, Georgia, before his son inherited the business. The younger Collins still maintains ties to the trucking company while serving in Congress. Collins was first elected in 2022. His father died in 2018.
Collins frames himself as an “outsider” and a blue-collar worker, but Ossoff’s campaign disputes his working-class roots.
“His rich daddy, a former congressman and career politician himself, handed Mike the keys to a company with dozens of employees, making multimillionaire Mike richer, while real truckers did the actual work,” the narrator continued. “Maybe that’s why Trump likes him so much.”
