PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. — The race for Senate is heating up, with both candidates making their final pushes now that early voting is underway.
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Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins held a campaign stop Thursday in Peachtree City, Channel 2’s Candace McCowan reports.
Collins is putting in the miles trying to reach voters, starting his day in LaGrange, stopping in Peachtree City and on to Cherokee County.
This is all ahead of his appearance with President Donald Trump tomorrow.
Congressman Mike Collins stopped in Peachtree City at Vanzant’s off Highway 74.
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It’s one of three campaign stops the congressman is making Thursday with 19 days to go until Election Day as he works to get voters to the polls.
He’s also reminding his supporters of his record and his opponent’s record.
“He shut it down, though,” Collins said. “He shut it down because he wanted to defund Border Patrol and ICE. The very people that are securing that border and the very people that are getting these people out of our country.
Incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff and Collins sparred on the debate stage earlier this week.
“I mean behind his highly skilled, scripted online clips is a coward,” Collins said.
“You want to explain that to folks across Georgia? Did you accidentally put people with Klan ties in your organization?” Ossoff said.
The Ossoff campaign pointing to new reporting about Collins campaign and certain workers records, calling on Collins to explain ahead of his appearance with President Donald Trump in Dalton.
Collins telling voters that are worried about gas prices why he’s the right choice: “If John Osoff was so worried about gas, Why’d they kill the Keystone Pipeline? Why did he vote for the Green New Deal?”
Trump is making several stops ahead of the midterms, again appearing with Collins and Republican candidate for governor Rick Jackson Friday.
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