The person behind the name
Mike Collins’s public career runs from a family trucking business in Jackson, Georgia, to two terms in the U.S. House, where he sponsored the House version of the Laken Riley Act, the first law President Trump signed in his second term.
Collins was born in 1967 and, by his official biography, was raised in Jackson, Georgia, where he still lives. He and his wife, Leigh Ann, started a trucking company in the early 1990s that the biography says has grown to employ more than 100 Georgians; he has also served on the board and as chairman of one of Georgia’s largest credit unions and as president of his local chamber of commerce. The official biography counts three grown children and four grandchildren; the campaign biography names the children as Dakota, Dylan and Summer and counts six grandchildren. [3][1][45]
Education and professional preparation
His official biography reports a business degree from Georgia State University. The campaign biography says he started his first trucking business at age 25 with one semi-truck and has led three businesses; the official biography puts the company at more than 100 employees, and his runoff-night speech at nearly 100. The degree year, the company names and any business registrations were not part of this review. [1][45][48]
From a lost runoff to Congress
Collins first sought the Tenth District seat in 2014 and lost the July 22, 2014 Republican runoff to Jody Hice, 26,975 votes to 22,684. When Hice left the seat to run for secretary of state he ran again, winning the June 21, 2022 Republican runoff over Vernon Jones, 30,536 to 10,469, and the November 8, 2022 general election with 198,523 votes, 64.5 percent, over Tabitha Johnson-Green. He took office on January 3, 2023 and was re-elected on November 5, 2024 with 256,442 votes, 63.1 percent, over Alexandra Doherty. [7][66][8][9][3][10]
The Senate nomination
He announced his Senate candidacy on July 28, 2025, saying in his launch video that it was “time to send a trucker to the U.S. Senate to steamroll the radical left, deliver on President Trump’s America First agenda, and put the people of Georgia back in the driver’s seat.” In the May 19, 2026 Republican primary he led a five-candidate field with 369,642 votes, 40.5 percent, short of a majority. President Trump endorsed him two days before the June 16 runoff, in which he defeated Derek Dooley, 390,174 votes to 312,339, 55.5 percent. He faces Senator Jon Ossoff, who was unopposed in the Democratic primary with 1,042,331 votes, in the November 3, 2026 general election. [66][11][57][55][12]
A note on the family name. Collins is the son of the late Mac Collins, an eight-term Republican congressman from Georgia, a relationship neither the official nor the campaign biography states; it is recorded here from the reporting of CBS News Atlanta, NBC News and Roll Call. The campaign biography’s account of sweeping floors after class at his father’s shop is the campaign’s own. [50][54][66][45]
Life & public service
From a trucking company to Congress and a statewide campaign, the documented milestones show how his record was built.
A first run for Congress
Finished second to Jody Hice in the Tenth District Republican runoff, 22,684 votes to 26,975. [7]
Whip team and subcommittee chairman
His office announced on February 2, 2025 that Majority Whip Tom Emmer had selected him for the House majority whip team; he chairs the Transportation Committee’s Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee in the 119th Congress, and his PERMIT Act passed the House 221–205 on December 11, 2025. [67][2][19][20]
Accomplishments, in the record
Legislative documents, roll calls and the Committee on Ethics’ published files establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where the measure that became law carried another legislator’s name.
A law with his name on it: the TRANQ Research Act
H.R. 1734, the TRANQ Research Act of 2023, directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology to advance research on illicit drugs containing xylazine and novel synthetic opioids. Collins introduced it on March 23, 2023; it was ordered reported 36–0 in committee on March 29, 2023; the House passed it 425–0 under suspension of the rules on May 11, 2023; the Senate passed it with an amendment by unanimous consent on June 22, 2023; the House agreed to the Senate amendment by voice vote on December 4, 2023; and it became Public Law 118-23 on December 19, 2023. It is the one measure he has sponsored that was enacted in its own right. [14][5][13]
The Laken Riley Act
Collins introduced the Laken Riley Act after the 2024 killing of a nursing student in Athens, Georgia. The first version, H.R. 7511, passed the House 251–170 on March 7, 2024 and was never passed by the Senate. In the new Congress H.R. 29 passed the House 264–159 on January 7, 2025. The measure that became law was the Senate companion, S. 5, sponsored by Senator Katie Britt: it passed the Senate 64–35, passed the House 263–156 on January 22, 2025 with 46 Democrats in favor, and was signed on January 29, 2025 as Public Law 119-1, the first law of the second Trump administration. NBC News described the act as written by Collins; the statute carries the Senate bill’s number. [15][5][16][17][18][56]
The law requires Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants who are arrested for, charged with or convicted of burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting. The campaign’s deportation figures for the law — over 21,000 people “off Georgia’s streets” in its May 19, 2026 release, and over 20,000 “in this country” in the runoff-night speech — are campaign claims this review did not measure. [56][47][48]
The PERMIT Act and the Water Resources chair
As chairman of the Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee, Collins sponsored H.R. 3898, the PERMIT Act, revising permitting under the Clean Water Act. The Transportation Committee ordered it reported 34–30 on June 25, 2025 and the House passed it 221–205 on December 11, 2025; it awaits the Senate. His office calls it the third bill he has passed through the House; the League of Conservation Voters lists the same roll call on its 2025 scorecard, on which he scores 0 percent. A fourth, H.R. 3679, the Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act, passed the House by voice vote on February 23, 2026. His office announced on February 2, 2025 that Majority Whip Tom Emmer had selected him for the House majority whip team. [2][5][19][20][42][67]
Thirty bills, one law of his own, four House passages
Congress.gov counts 30 sponsored and 396 cosponsored measures since January 2023. Of the 27 bills and resolutions in GovTrack’s record of his sponsorship, one was enacted in its own right (H.R. 1734), four passed the House (H.R. 7511, H.R. 29, H.R. 3898 and H.R. 3679), one was reported from committee and 21 went no further than introduction. GovTrack’s count of two enacted bills includes H.R. 29 because its provisions were carried by S. 5. [3][5][4]
H.R. 1, twice
Collins voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, at House passage on May 22, 2025 (215–214) and Aye on concurring in the Senate amendment on July 3, 2025 (218–214). That is a recorded vote, not authorship; his runoff-night statement that he “voted to deliver historic tax relief to working- and middle-class Americans” does not name the bill. [21][22][48]
Against the debt-limit deal and Ukraine aid
He voted No on the Fiscal Responsibility Act on May 31, 2023 (passed 314–117), Nay on the Ukraine Security Supplemental on April 20, 2024 (passed 311–112) and Nay on the Ukraine Support Act on June 4, 2026 (passed 226–195). On October 3, 2023 he voted Nay on the motion to declare Speaker McCarthy’s chair vacant, which carried 216–210. [23][25][26][24]
A warrant requirement that failed on a tie
On April 12, 2024 Collins voted Aye on H.Amdt. 876, the Biggs amendment to H.R. 7888 to prohibit warrantless searches of U.S. persons’ communications in the Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats, consent and known cybersecurity threat signatures; it failed 212–212. He voted No on the reauthorization bill, which passed 273–147. [27][69][28]
Recent defining votes
He voted Nay on all three 2026 resolutions directing the President to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran (May 14, failed 212–212; July 23, passed 214–208; September 15, passed 220–204); Aye on the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 18, 2025 (passed 427–1); and Yea on September 15, 2026 to table a resolution impeaching President Trump (232–147). He voted for Mike Johnson for Speaker on January 3, 2025. [30][31][32][29][33][34]
Attendance, ideology and ratings, measured
GovTrack counts 23 missed roll-call votes of 1,917 from January 2023 to September 2026, 1.2 percent, better than the 2.1 percent median it reports for sitting representatives. Voteview’s DW-NOMINATE first-dimension score places him at 0.679 in both the 118th and 119th Congresses; computed from the same file for this profile, that ranks 33rd of 230 House Republicans in the 118th and 39th of 227 in the 119th, where the Republican medians were 0.504 and 0.530. GovTrack lists him as a member of the Freedom Caucus, with its caveat that caucus data may be incomplete. [4][6]
Heritage Action scores him 100 percent for the 119th Congress and 99 percent lifetime. The Club for Growth Foundation’s scorecard, keyed to the same Bioguide identifier the Clerk of the House uses, gives him 95 for 2025, a lifetime score of 98 and a rank of 42, with its Defender of Economic Freedom award in 2023, 2024 and 2025. The League of Conservation Voters scores him 0 percent for 2025 and 1 percent lifetime; the NRA Political Victory Fund grades him A and Senator Ossoff F. [40][41][42][43]
Family & community
His official biography identifies his wife as Leigh Ann and says the couple has three grown children and four grandchildren; the campaign biography names the children as Dakota, Dylan and Summer and counts six grandchildren. Both place him in Jackson, Georgia, where he was born and raised. [1][45]
The official biography records service on the board and as chairman of one of Georgia’s largest credit unions and as president of his local chamber of commerce; the campaign biography names them as Georgia’s Associated Credit Union and the Butts County Chamber of Commerce and adds the chairmanship of the Georgia Motor Trucking Association. In Congress, GovTrack lists him as a member of the Freedom Caucus. [1][45][4]
The campaign biography states that the family attends Rock Springs Church in Milner; the official House biography does not state a religious affiliation. This profile records the campaign’s statement and makes no further claim. [45][1]
Mission & priorities
“Georgia needs a U.S. Senator who has worked for a living, created jobs, and has taken on the tough fights to do what’s right.” {44}
The following summarizes the agenda on Collins’s campaign website and in his runoff-night address of June 16, 2026. These are proposed priorities, not completed accomplishments. [44][48]
01Lower prices and cut red tape
The first plank of his runoff-night address is to “get rid of the policies that have fueled high prices,” which he ties to his PERMIT Act, described as legislation “that will cut red tape for infrastructure, housing, and smart development to lower costs.” The record: H.R. 3898 passed the House 221–205 on December 11, 2025 and awaits the Senate. [48][19]
02Energy dominance
Second, to “expand President Trump’s energy policies to continue to unleash American energy dominance” with what he calls an all-of-the-above approach. He sits on the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and sponsored H.R. 4068, the Streamlining NEPA for Coal Act, which has not moved beyond introduction. [48][2][5]
03Health-care and child-care costs
Third, to “lower childcare and healthcare costs by creating more price transparency, lowering prescription drug prices, expanding health savings accounts, and rooting out the waste, fraud, and abuse” he says is raising costs. No bill of his on those subjects appears in the sponsorship record reviewed. [48][5]
04Border security and the Laken Riley Act
The campaign’s central claim is the Laken Riley Act: the campaign biography says he “delivered by passing the Laken Riley Act and making it the first bill that President Trump signed in his second term.” The House bill was his; the enacted statute was the Senate companion, S. 5, signed January 29, 2025 as Public Law 119-1. He also sponsored the RAZOR Act (2024) and the SAFE for America Act of 2025, neither of which advanced. [45][18][5]
05Standing with President Trump
Asked at a Dahlonega campaign stop before the May 19, 2026 primary whether there were any aspects of the President’s second term he disagreed with, he told NBC News: “Listen, I ran on Trump policies. I ran on ‘America First.’ I know what those policies did and can do for this country and for the people of this country.” The record: Yea and Aye on the two House votes on H.R. 1 in 2025, and Yea to table the impeachment resolution of September 15, 2026. [54][21][22][33]
06Abortion
On a Georgia Life Alliance candidate certification application from his campaign for the Tenth District seat in the 2022 cycle, Collins initialed “yes” to the question whether abortion should be illegal, left blank the exception lines the form offered (to prevent the death of the mother, reported rape, reported incest, other), and initialed “yes” to supporting Georgia’s LIFE Act, the heartbeat law. MS NOW reported in June 2026 that his campaign now points to more recent comments embracing the heartbeat law, which, as MS NOW noted, includes exceptions. No 2026 campaign page on the subject was found in this review. [59][55]
07Working-class Georgians
The campaign’s home page casts the race as a contest between a trucking businessman and a career politician: “Working-class Americans aren’t just the backbone of this campaign, they are the backbone of our entire country.” It reports an average contribution of $19.05 from almost 16,000 donations in the second quarter of 2026. [44][49]
How to assess a proposal. A campaign plan states an intention. Enactment, implementation costs, replacement revenue, and measured results are separate questions. These priorities should be read alongside the legislative and voting history above.
The fuller record
A useful profile includes policy tradeoffs, the limits of a claim, and responses to material criticism.
The ethics referral
On October 7, 2025 the Committee on Ethics received a referral from the Office of Congressional Conduct concerning Collins; it disclosed the matter on November 21, 2025 and on January 5, 2026 published the OCC’s report and his counsel’s response, saying it would review the matter further and that doing so “does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred.” The OCC board, by a 6–0 vote on September 24, 2025, found substantial reason to believe that congressional resources were used for unofficial or otherwise unauthorized purposes, that an employee was retained who did not perform duties commensurate with her pay, and that special favors were dispensed by retaining an employee with whom his chief of staff had a personal relationship. The report records payments to a district intern of $5,044.00 in late 2023 and $5,244.44 in late 2024, says the OCC could not reach a determination on separate allegations about the chief of staff’s travel expenses and campaign work, and states that Collins and the chief of staff did not respond to its requests after an initial telephone call. Counsel’s letter of December 31, 2025 asked for dismissal, attributing the complaint to “two disgruntled, former members of Congressman Collins’ staff” and calling the chief of staff’s decision to hire the intern “well within his discretion in managing the congressman’s office.” His office called the complaint “a sad attempt to derail one of Georgia’s most effective conservative legislators in Congress,” and he has described the review as a “nothing burger.” The OCC’s findings are those of an office, not a court, and no Committee finding appears in the records reviewed. [35][36][37][51][50][55]
An AI-generated ad
In November 2025 the campaign posted a video, generated with artificial intelligence and carrying an on-screen disclaimer, that depicted Senator Ossoff saying things he did not say. The Georgia Republican Party’s chairman called it “clearly labeled as AI-generated satire”; the campaign said it “will be at the forefront embracing new tactics and strategies that pierce through lopsided legacy media coverage”; the Ossoff campaign called it an attempt to mislead voters. The disclaimer and the statements are in the record; whether the practice is fair is a judgment for the reader. [52]
The chief of staff, the son-in-law and the opponent’s charge
CBS News Atlanta reported, and the OCC report notes citing WSB-TV, that his former chief of staff, Brandon Phillips, now with the Senate campaign, resigned as the Trump campaign’s Georgia director in 2016 after news reports of 2008 battery and felony criminal-damage charges, which ended in a guilty plea to the lesser charges of criminal trespass and battery. In July 2026 CNN reported that Collins’s son-in-law, who had appeared in campaign photographs and attended the primary-night party, had promoted white nationalist ideology and shared antisemitic material online; the campaign’s statement to CNN spoke of Collins’s support for Israel and his record in Congress and did not address the posts, and when reporters raised the matter at a July 30, 2026 event he said it had been fully addressed and turned to Senator Ossoff. Ossoff has since called him a bigot “surrounded at work and at home by neo-Nazis and white nationalists,” a phrase his campaign repeated in answering Governor Kemp’s endorsement; WSB-TV reported that the Collins campaign’s statement did not address it. The son-in-law’s posts were not reviewed for this profile; CNN’s account is recorded as reporting and the opponent’s charge as a charge. [51][36][64][65][53][58]
The 2020 election and January 6
On January 13, 2022, during his House campaign, Collins posted on X: “Newsflash: Joe Biden and the Democrats stole the 2020 election. Donald Trump won Georgia.” Georgia’s official recount results for 2020 give Joseph R. Biden 2,473,633 votes to Donald J. Trump’s 2,461,854. On January 6, 2025 his official account described the 2021 Capitol riot as “thousands of peaceful grandmothers” taking “a self-guided, albeit unauthorized, tour of the U.S. Capitol building,” said hundreds of “peaceful protestors” had been “hunted down, arrested, held in solitary confinement, and treated unjustly” and welcomed President Trump’s planned pardons of nonviolent defendants; The Red & Black in Athens reported the post and the responses to it. MS NOW described him in June 2026 as having falsely claimed Trump won Georgia, and in endorsing him President Trump faulted Dooley for saying Trump lost the state. No later statement revising either post was found in the material reviewed. [60][62][61][63][55][57]
Endorsements and the primary field
Governor Kemp endorsed Derek Dooley early in the primary and campaigned across the state with him; President Trump endorsed Collins on Truth Social two days before the June 16 runoff, writing that “Mike is strongly supported by the most Highly Respected MAGA Patriots in Georgia and beyond,” to which Dooley replied that “a vote for Mike Collins is a vote for Jon Ossoff.” Kemp endorsed Collins on September 14, 2026, saying the two “share a commitment to making Georgia an even better place to live, work and raise a family”; the campaign lists him alongside Speaker Gingrich, the Club for Growth, the Senate Conservatives Fund and Turning Point Action. Endorsements establish political support; they are not evaluations of the record above. [54][57][55][53][58][46]
Money
The Federal Election Commission’s summary for his Senate candidacy, covering January 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026, shows total receipts of $7,409,349.57, including $2,437,476.23 transferred from other authorized committees, disbursements of $5,932,538.69, cash on hand of $2,079,981.42 and debts of $461,915.72 across his two authorized committees, Mike Collins for Senate and a nominee fund. The campaign’s July 15, 2026 release put second-quarter receipts at $2.1 million and cash on hand at $2,189,621.89; NBC News put the Ossoff campaign’s account at more than $32 million as of April 29, 2026. The campaign’s claim of being outspent 15-to-1 on television in the primary is its own. The Commission’s election page for the race updates with each filing, and his House campaigns’ reports sit under a separate candidate profile; the underlying filings were not read for this review. [68][49][54][47][38][39]
Questions & answers
Who is Mike Collins?
Mike Collins’s public career runs from a family trucking business in Jackson, Georgia, to two terms in the U.S. House, where he sponsored the House version of the Laken Riley Act, the first law President Trump signed in his second term. Collins was born in 1967 and, by his official biography, was raised in Jackson, Georgia, where he still lives. He and his wife, Leigh Ann, started a trucking company in the early 1990s that the biography says has grown to employ more than 100 Georgians; he has also served on the board and as chairman of one of Georgia’s largest credit unions and as president of his local chamber of commerce. The official biography counts three grown children and four grandchildren; the campaign biography names the children as Dakota, Dylan and Summer and counts six grandchildren. [3][1][45]
What office is Mike Collins running for in 2026?
Who is Mike Collins running against?
He announced his Senate candidacy on July 28, 2025, saying in his launch video that it was “time to send a trucker to the U.S. Senate to steamroll the radical left, deliver on President Trump’s America First agenda, and put the people of Georgia back in the driver’s seat.” In the May 19, 2026 Republican primary he led a five-candidate field with 369,642 votes, 40.5 percent, short of a majority. President Trump endorsed him two days before the June 16 runoff, in which he defeated Derek Dooley, 390,174 votes to 312,339, 55.5 percent. He faces Senator Jon Ossoff, who was unopposed in the Democratic primary with 1,042,331 votes, in the November 3, 2026 general election. [66][11][57][55][12]
What are Mike Collins's stated priorities?
The following summarizes the agenda on Collins’s campaign website and in his runoff-night address of June 16, 2026. These are proposed priorities, not completed accomplishments. [44][48] The campaign lists: Lower prices and cut red tape; Energy dominance; Health-care and child-care costs; Border security and the Laken Riley Act; Standing with President Trump; Abortion; Working-class Georgians.
What does the public record show?
Legislative documents, roll calls and the Committee on Ethics’ published files establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where the measure that became law carried another legislator’s name. H.R. 1734, the TRANQ Research Act of 2023, directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology to advance research on illicit drugs containing xylazine and novel synthetic opioids. Collins introduced it on March 23, 2023; it was ordered reported 36–0 in committee on March 29, 2023; the House passed it 425–0 under suspension of the rules on May 11, 2023; the Senate passed it with an amendment by unanimous consent on June 22, 2023; the House agreed to the Senate amendment by voice vote on December 4, 2023; and it became Public Law 118-23 on December 19, 2023. It is the one measure he has sponsored that was enacted in its own right. [14][5][13]
How was this profile researched?
Reviewed and fact-checked September 17, 2026. This is a documented overview of publicly available biography, major actions, and stated priorities, not an exhaustive vote-by-vote record; nineteen roll calls were read for it and the defining ones are cited. Election percentages are computed for this profile from the Georgia Secretary of State’s official vote totals. Numerical claims retain their original meaning and attribution. Historical sources do not imply current positions. An office’s findings are labeled as such. Personal financial disclosures, the degree year, business registrations and the underlying campaign-finance filings were not part of this review; the Senate-cycle finance figures are read from the Federal Election Commission’s candidate summary. The source list provides direct links so readers can check the underlying material. Filings and campaign pages may change after this review.
Sources & methodology
Government records anchor the profile: the Clerk’s roll calls, Congress.gov bill records, the Georgia Secretary of State’s results and the Committee on Ethics’ published files. Official and campaign biographies establish attributed background; original reporting supplies responses and scrutiny; independent analyses and advocacy ratings are labeled as such.
- 01About | Representative Collins (official House biography)collins.house.gov · accessed September 17, 2026
Official biography: Jackson, Georgia; the trucking company started with his wife in the early 1990s; credit-union and chamber roles; Georgia State business degree; three children, four grandchildren.Government record - 02Committees and Caucuses | Representative Collinscollins.house.gov · accessed September 17, 2026
Transportation and Infrastructure (Water Resources and Environment chairman), Natural Resources (Oversight and Investigations vice chair) and Science assignments in the 119th Congress.Government record - 03Congress.gov member record, C001129Library of Congress (Congress.gov API) · accessed September 17, 2026
Birth year 1967; terms in the 118th and 119th Congresses from 2023; 30 sponsored and 396 cosponsored measures as counted by Congress.gov, read through its public API.Government record - 04Rep. Mike Collins — member page and missed-votes recordGovTrack.us · accessed September 17, 2026
Attendance: 23 of 1,917 roll calls missed from January 2023 to September 2026 (1.2 percent) against a 2.1 percent median; two bills counted as enacted under GovTrack's inclusive definition; Freedom Caucus listing with GovTrack's caveat; summary of the ethics referral.Independent analysis or rating - 05Bills sponsored by Mike Collins, 2023–2026 (27 records)GovTrack.us (API) · accessed September 17, 2026
Status of every sponsored measure: one enacted in its own right (H.R. 1734), four passed by the House (H.R. 7511, H.R. 29, H.R. 3898, H.R. 3679), one reported, twenty-one introduced only; roll-call numbers and committee tallies for each.Independent analysis or rating - 06DW-NOMINATE member data (HSall_members.csv)Voteview (UCLA) · accessed September 17, 2026
First-dimension score 0.679 in the 118th and 119th Congresses. Rankings among House Republicans were computed from this file for this profile.Independent analysis or rating - 07July 22, 2014 General Primary Runoff — official resultsGeorgia Secretary of State (results.sos.ga.gov) · 2014; accessed September 17, 2026
U.S. Representative, District 10, Republican runoff: Hice 26,975; Collins 22,684. Figures read through the site's results API (elections/Georgia/2014JulGenPriRun/data); the linked page shows the same contest.Government record - 08June 21, 2022 General Primary Runoff — official resultsGeorgia Secretary of State (results.sos.ga.gov) · 2022; accessed September 17, 2026
U.S. House District 10 Republican runoff: Collins 30,536; Vernon Jones 10,469; 18 of 18 reporting units. Read through the site's results API; the linked page shows the same contest.Government record - 09November 8, 2022 General Election — official resultsGeorgia Secretary of State (results.sos.ga.gov) · 2022; accessed September 17, 2026
U.S. House District 10: Collins 198,523; Tabitha Johnson-Green 109,107; total 307,630. Read through the site's results API; the linked page shows the same contest.Government record - 10November 5, 2024 General Election — official resultsGeorgia Secretary of State (results.sos.ga.gov) · 2024; accessed September 17, 2026
U.S. House District 10: Collins 256,442; Alexandra Doherty 150,274; total 406,716. Read through the site's results API; the linked page shows the same contest.Government record - 11May 19, 2026 General Primary — official results (Republican ballot)Georgia Secretary of State (results.sos.ga.gov) · official results; accessed September 17, 2026
U.S. Senate, Republican primary: Collins 369,642; Dooley 275,534; Carter 229,223; McColumn 28,447; Coyne 9,850; total 912,696. Democratic primary: Ossoff 1,042,331. Read through the site's results API (elections/Georgia/GeneralPrimary51926/data); marked official results.Government record - 12June 16, 2026 General Primary Runoff — official resultsGeorgia Secretary of State (results.sos.ga.gov) · official results; accessed September 17, 2026
U.S. Senate, Republican runoff: Collins 390,174; Dooley 312,339; total 702,513; 159 of 159 counties. Read through the site's results API (elections/Georgia/06162026GeneralPrimaryRunoff/data); marked official results.Government record - 13Roll call 212, May 11, 2023 — H.R. 1734, TRANQ Research ActClerk of the U.S. House · May 11, 2023
Passed under suspension 425–0; Collins recorded Yea.Government record - 14H.R. 1734, TRANQ Research Act of 2023 — bill recordLibrary of Congress (Congress.gov API) · accessed September 17, 2026
Sponsor Collins; introduced March 23, 2023; became Public Law 118-23 on December 19, 2023; House Report 118-50.Government record - 15Roll call 66, March 7, 2024 — H.R. 7511, Laken Riley ActClerk of the U.S. House · March 7, 2024
Passed 251–170; Collins recorded Yea.Government record - 16Roll call 6, January 7, 2025 — H.R. 29, Laken Riley ActClerk of the U.S. House · January 7, 2025
Passed 264–159; Collins recorded Yea.Government record - 17Roll call 23, January 22, 2025 — S. 5, Laken Riley ActClerk of the U.S. House · January 22, 2025
The Senate companion passed the House 263–156; Collins recorded Yea.Government record - 18S. 5, Laken Riley Act — bill recordLibrary of Congress (Congress.gov API) · accessed September 17, 2026
Sponsor Senator Katie Britt; introduced January 6, 2025; became Public Law 119-1 on January 29, 2025 — the enacted vehicle for the House bill Collins sponsored.Government record - 19Roll call 330, December 11, 2025 — H.R. 3898, PERMIT ActClerk of the U.S. House · December 11, 2025
Passed 221–205; Collins recorded Yea.Government record - 20House of Representatives Passes Rep. Collins' Permitting Reform PackageOffice of Rep. Mike Collins (collins.house.gov) · December 11, 2025
The office's account of H.R. 3898 and its statement that it is the third bill he has passed through the House; supporters listed.Government record - 21Roll call 145, May 22, 2025 — H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passageClerk of the U.S. House · May 22, 2025
Passed 215–214; Collins recorded Yea.Government record - 22Roll call 190, July 3, 2025 — H.R. 1, motion to concur in the Senate amendmentClerk of the U.S. House · July 3, 2025
Agreed to 218–214; Collins recorded Aye.Government record - 23Roll call 243, May 31, 2023 — H.R. 3746, Fiscal Responsibility ActClerk of the U.S. House · May 31, 2023
Passed 314–117; Collins recorded No.Government record - 24Roll call 519, October 3, 2023 — H.Res. 757, declaring the office of Speaker vacantClerk of the U.S. House · October 3, 2023
Agreed to 216–210; Collins recorded Nay.Government record - 25Roll call 151, April 20, 2024 — H.R. 8035, Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations ActClerk of the U.S. House · April 20, 2024
Passed 311–112; Collins recorded Nay.Government record - 26Roll call 207, June 4, 2026 — H.R. 2913, Ukraine Support ActClerk of the U.S. House · June 4, 2026
Passed 226–195; Collins recorded Nay.Government record - 27Roll call 114, April 12, 2024 — Biggs amendment to H.R. 7888 (warrant requirement)Clerk of the U.S. House · April 12, 2024
Failed on a 212–212 tie; Collins recorded Aye.Government record - 28Roll call 119, April 12, 2024 — H.R. 7888, Reforming Intelligence and Securing America ActClerk of the U.S. House · April 12, 2024
Passed 273–147; Collins recorded No.Government record - 29Roll call 289, November 18, 2025 — H.R. 4405, Epstein Files Transparency ActClerk of the U.S. House · November 18, 2025
Passed 427–1; Collins recorded Aye.Government record - 30Roll call 170, May 14, 2026 — H.Con.Res. 75, removing U.S. forces from hostilities against IranClerk of the U.S. House · May 14, 2026
Failed 212–212; Collins recorded Nay.Government record - 31Roll call 282, July 23, 2026 — H.Con.Res. 89, removing U.S. forces from hostilities with IranClerk of the U.S. House · July 23, 2026
Agreed to 214–208; Collins recorded Nay.Government record - 32Roll call 307, September 15, 2026 — H.Con.Res. 93, removing U.S. forces from hostilities with IranClerk of the U.S. House · September 15, 2026
Agreed to 220–204; Collins recorded Nay.Government record - 33Roll call 298, September 15, 2026 — motion to table H.Res. 1486, impeaching President TrumpClerk of the U.S. House · September 15, 2026
Motion to table agreed to 232–147; Collins recorded Yea.Government record - 34Roll call 2, January 3, 2025 — election of the SpeakerClerk of the U.S. House · January 3, 2025
Collins voted for Johnson of Louisiana.Government record - 35Statement of the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics Regarding Representative Mike CollinsU.S. House Committee on Ethics · January 5, 2026
Referral received October 7, 2025; review extended November 21, 2025; further review under Committee Rule 18(a); publication of the OCC report and the Member's response, with the Committee's note that further review indicates no judgment.Government record - 36Office of Congressional Conduct — Report and Findings, Review No. 25-7636 (Rep. Collins)U.S. House Committee on Ethics (published) · adopted September 24, 2025; published January 5, 2026
Board vote 6–0; the three findings of substantial reason to believe; the intern payments of $5,044.00 (late 2023) and $5,244.44 (late 2024) per the Statements of Disbursements; matters the OCC could not determine; non-cooperation and subpoena recommendations. Findings of an office, not a court.Government record - 37Representative Collins' Response (letter of counsel to the Committee on Ethics)U.S. House Committee on Ethics (published) · December 31, 2025
Two-page letter from Clark Hill on behalf of Collins and his chief of staff asking the Committee to dismiss both referrals; published as an image, its wording was read by optical character recognition for this review and matches CBS News Atlanta's account.Government record - 382026 Election, United States Senate — GeorgiaFederal Election Commission · accessed September 17, 2026
The Commission's election page listing the race's candidates and their filed receipts and cash on hand; figures on it update with each filing and were not transcribed for this profile.Government record - 39Candidate profile H4GA10071 — COLLINS, MICHAEL A JRFederal Election Commission · accessed September 17, 2026
The House-candidate identifier under which his congressional campaigns filed; a statement of candidacy for the 2026 House election filed May 22, 2025. His Senate-cycle candidate identifier was not retrieved for this review.Government record - 40Scorecard: Rep. Mike Collins, 119th CongressHeritage Action for America · accessed September 17, 2026
Session score 100 percent; lifetime 99 percent.Independent analysis or rating - 41Congressional Scorecard — Rep. Mike Collins (GA-10), legislator page C001129Club for Growth Foundation · accessed September 17, 2026
2025 score 95; lifetime 98; rank 42; Defender of Economic Freedom awards for 2023, 2024 and 2025; the votes scored, including his No on an amendment to rescind unobligated funds.Independent analysis or rating - 42National Environmental Scorecard: Mike CollinsLeague of Conservation Voters · accessed September 17, 2026
2025 score 0 percent; lifetime 1 percent; lists the PERMIT Act roll call (roll 330) on its 2025 scorecard.Independent analysis or rating - 43Grades & Endorsements — Georgia 2026NRA Political Victory Fund · accessed September 17, 2026
U.S. Senate: Mike Collins (R) A; Jon Ossoff (D) F.Independent analysis or rating - 44Mike Collins for Senate (campaign home page)Mike Collins for Senate (campaign) · accessed September 17, 2026
The campaign's statement of purpose quoted in this profile; the campaign's social-media links; the paid-for line naming the committee.Campaign or advocacy material - 45Meet Mike | Mike Collins for SenateMike Collins for Senate (campaign) · accessed September 17, 2026
Campaign biography: first truck at age 25, three businesses, children's names and six grandchildren, chamber, credit-union and trucking-association roles, church attendance, and the campaign's own account of its record. Self-descriptions.Campaign or advocacy material - 46Endorsements | Mike Collins for SenateMike Collins for Senate (campaign) · accessed September 17, 2026
The campaign's list: President Trump, Governor Kemp, Speaker Gingrich, House leaders, Club for Growth, Senate Conservatives Fund, Turning Point Action and Georgia sheriffs, commissioners and legislators.Campaign or advocacy material - 47Mike Collins Finishes First in U.S. Senate Primary, Advances to RunoffMike Collins for Senate (campaign) · May 19, 2026
Election-night release: the claim of being outspent 15-to-1 on television and the claim that the Laken Riley Act has produced over 21,000 deportations. Campaign claims.Campaign or advocacy material - 48Mike Collins Wins U.S. Senate Primary, Advances to General Election Against Jon OssoffMike Collins for Senate (campaign) · June 16, 2026
The runoff-night speech in full: the three-part agenda, the PERMIT Act, the two laws, the deportation figure and the contrast drawn with Senator Ossoff. The candidate's own words.Campaign or advocacy material - 49Mike Collins' Q2 Fundraising Report Shows Strong Grassroots Support Across GeorgiaMike Collins for Senate (campaign) · July 15, 2026
$2.1 million raised in the second quarter of 2026; $2,189,621.89 cash on hand; average contribution $19.05 from almost 16,000 donations, as the campaign reports them.Campaign or advocacy material - 50House Ethics Committee reviewing complaint against U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, chief of staffCBS News Atlanta · November 21, 2025
The Committee's November 21, 2025 disclosure; the spokesperson's response; the identification of Collins as the son of the late Rep. Mac Collins.Independent reporting - 51Ethics watchdog: Top aide to Georgia's Mike Collins improperly hired girlfriend as internCBS News Atlanta · January 6, 2026
Summary of the OCC report; the wording of counsel's December 31 letter; the office's statement calling the complaint bogus; the chief of staff's 2008 charges and plea; the rivals' reactions.Independent reporting - 52Georgia Rep. Mike Collins' campaign uses AI-generated deepfake of Senator Jon Ossoff in tight Senate showdownCBS News Atlanta · November 21, 2025
The AI-generated video, its on-screen disclaimer, the Georgia GOP chairman's defense, the Collins campaign's statement and the Ossoff campaign's response.Independent reporting - 53Gov. Brian Kemp endorses Collins in U.S. Senate bid to unseat Ossoff: “A different direction”CBS News Atlanta · September 14, 2026
Kemp's endorsement statement after backing Dooley in the primary; Collins's reply; Senator Ossoff's rally remarks about Collins; the Ossoff campaign's response.Independent reporting - 54Rep. Mike Collins and Derek Dooley advance to Georgia GOP Senate runoffNBC News (Bridget Bowman) · May 19, 2026
The primary result; Kemp's early endorsement of Dooley; Collins's remarks on President Trump; the Ossoff campaign's cash position as of April 29.Independent reporting - 55The Trump candidate who could cost Republicans GeorgiaMS NOW (Hunter Woodall) · June 16, 2026
President Trump's Truth Social endorsement the weekend before the runoff, quoted; Dooley's response; the abortion-questionnaire history, with a link to the questionnaire; Collins's description of the OCC review. Anonymous strategists' assessments in the piece are not used here.Independent reporting - 56Trump signs the Laken Riley Act into lawNBC News (Katherine Doyle and Zoë Richards) · January 29, 2025
The signing; the House vote of 263–156 with 46 Democrats and the Senate vote of 64–35; the act described as written by Collins; what the law requires.Independent reporting - 57Trump-endorsed Rep. Mike Collins wins Georgia GOP runoff to take on Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff: AP projectsABC News (Halle Troadec) · June 16, 2026
President Trump's endorsement two days before the runoff, quoted; Kemp's early endorsement of and campaigning with Dooley; Trump's remarks on the 2020 election in the endorsement; the state's certification of the 2020 result.Independent reporting - 58Kemp endorses Mike Collins for U.S. Senate as Ossoff campaign fires backWSB-TV Channel 2 Atlanta (Sabrina Castro) · September 14, 2026
Kemp's endorsement announced Monday, September 14, 2026, quoted; Collins's reply; the Ossoff campaign's statement; the note that the Collins campaign's statement did not address the allegations.Independent reporting - 59Georgia Candidate Pro-Life Certification Application — Mike Collins (initialed questionnaire)Georgia Life Alliance (PDF as linked by MS NOW) · 2022 election cycle; undated form
The candidate's initialed answers: yes to abortion being illegal, no exception lines initialed, yes to the LIFE Act; the form names Mike Collins for Congress, Georgia 10, Republican. Image PDF read by optical character recognition and by inspection.Campaign or advocacy material - 60Post by @MikeCollinsGA on X, January 13, 2022Mike Collins (campaign account on X) · January 13, 2022
The candidate's own statement that the 2020 election was stolen and that Donald Trump won Georgia, quoted verbatim.Campaign or advocacy material - 61Post by @RepMikeCollins on X, January 6, 2025Office of Rep. Mike Collins (official account on X) · January 6, 2025
The official account's description of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot and of the prosecutions, and its welcome of the announced pardons, quoted verbatim.Government record - 62November 3, 2020 General Election Recount — official resultsGeorgia Secretary of State (results.sos.ga.gov) · 2020; accessed September 17, 2026
President of the United States, recount: Biden 2,473,633; Trump 2,461,854; Jorgensen 62,229; 159 of 159 counties; marked official results. Read through the site's results API (elections/Georgia/2020NovGenRec/data).Government record - 63U.S. Rep. Mike Collins generates controversy with Jan. 6 tweetThe Red & Black (Athens, Georgia) · January 10, 2025
Independent report of the January 6, 2025 post, quoting it, with the responses it drew.Independent reporting - 64GOP Senate candidate has close ties to White nationalist influencer, his son-in-lawCNN (KFile) · July 16, 2026
CNN's original reporting on the son-in-law's online posts, his appearance in campaign photographs and at the primary-night party, and the campaign's statement, which addressed Collins's record on Israel and not the posts. Reported here as reporting.Independent reporting - 65GOP Senate nominee ends press conference after questions on ties to White nationalist influencerCNN (KFile) · July 30, 2026
Collins's on-record response at a Monroe County Hospital event: that the matter had been fully addressed, followed by criticism of Senator Ossoff; Ossoff's remarks the same day.Independent reporting - 66Georgia Rep. Mike Collins enters GOP primary to take on Sen. Jon OssoffRoll Call (Daniela Altimari) · July 28, 2025
The campaign launch on Monday, July 28, 2025, with the launch-video quotation; the son of the late Rep. Mac Collins; the 2014 runoff loss to Hice and Hice's departure to run for secretary of state.Independent reporting - 67Rep. Mike Collins Joins House Majority Whip TeamOffice of Rep. Mike Collins (e-newsletter release) · February 2, 2025
The office's announcement that Majority Whip Tom Emmer selected him for the House majority whip team in the 119th Congress.Government record - 68Candidate profile S6GA00390 — COLLINS, MICHAEL A JR (U.S. Senate, Georgia, 2026)Federal Election Commission · coverage January 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026; accessed September 17, 2026
Principal committee Mike Collins for Senate (C00544684) and a nominee fund; total receipts $7,409,349.57 including $2,437,476.23 in transfers from other authorized committees; disbursements $5,932,538.69; cash on hand $2,079,981.42; debts $461,915.72.Government record - 69H.Amdt. 876 (Biggs) to H.R. 7888 — House vote 114, April 12, 2024GovTrack.us · April 12, 2024; accessed September 17, 2026
The amendment's title, to prohibit warrantless searches of U.S. person communications in the FISA 702 database with stated exceptions, and the 212–212 result; used only for the description of the amendment.Independent analysis or rating
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Voting in Georgia: official dates, deadlines and rules
The general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The dates and rules below were read from the Georgia Secretary of State; the authority's own page, linked beside each one, is the final word.
Dates and deadlines
- Voter registration deadlineOctober 5, 2026 is the last day to register to vote, or to change the address on your registration, for the November 3, 2026 general election. The Secretary of State gives this single date, with no separate online, mail or in-person cutoffs and no time of day. Its FAQ says you must be registered ahead of an election to vote in that election. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/2026%20Elections%20Calendar_0.pdf
- Absentee ballots start being mailedOctober 5, 2026 is the first day county registrars mail or issue official absentee ballots for the November general election. For military and overseas (UOCAVA) voters, the first day is September 15, 2026. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/2026%20Elections%20Calendar_0.pdf
- Early voting (advance voting) beginsOctober 13, 2026. Advance voting must begin the fourth Monday before the election; the Secretary of State's calendar notes that the date was moved to the next business day because of a state holiday. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/2026%20Elections%20Calendar_0.pdf
- Early voting (advance voting) endsOctober 30, 2026 is the last day of advance voting. Within the period, counties must hold Saturday voting on October 17 and October 24, 2026, and may hold Sunday voting on October 18 and/or October 25, 2026. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/2026%20Elections%20Calendar_0.pdf
- Deadline to request an absentee (mail) ballotOctober 23, 2026 is the last day to request an absentee-by-mail ballot. The application form says the application must be received by your election office 11 days before the election. The request period opened on August 17, 2026. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/2026%20Elections%20Calendar_0.pdf
- Deadline to return an absentee ballot (received, not postmarked)November 3, 2026 (Election Day): your voted absentee ballot must be received by your county registrar no later than the close of polls; polls are open until 7:00 p.m. This is a received-by deadline: ballots received after the polls close cannot be counted. Military and overseas (UOCAVA) ballots postmarked by the election date are counted if received by 5:00 p.m. on November 6, 2026. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/Absentee_Voting_In_Georgia_Rev_3-30-22.pdf
- Poll hoursPolls are open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Election Day, November 3, 2026, at your assigned polling place. If you are in line by 7 p.m., you will still be allowed to vote. Read from: sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-voting
Rules to know
- What to bringGeorgia law requires photo identification when voting, either in person or absentee. For in-person voting the Secretary of State lists: any valid state or federal government-issued photo ID, including a free ID card issued by your county registrar's office or the Georgia Department of Driver Services; a Georgia driver's license, even if expired; a student ID from a Georgia public college or university; a valid employee photo ID from any branch, department, agency or entity of the U.S. Government, Georgia, or any county, municipality, board, authority or other entity of this state; a valid U.S. passport; a valid U.S. military photo ID; or a valid tribal photo ID. A free voter ID card can be issued at any county registrar's office or Department of Driver Services office. On an absentee ballot application, give your driver's license number or, if you do not have one, your state-issued ID card number; a voter with neither provides a copy or photo of another listed ID or of a document that shows name and address (current utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, government check or other government document). Read from: sos.ga.gov/page/georgia-voter-identification-requirements
- Voting absentee by mailIn Georgia you can vote by absentee ballot in any election, even if you will not be absent from the county on Election Day. Request the ballot online through the Secretary of State's absentee ballot portal, or send the completed Absentee Ballot Application to your county election office by mail, email (as an attachment), fax or in person. The application asks for your address, date of birth, the county where you are registered, and your driver's license or free state ID number (or a copy of another listed ID). For the November 3, 2026 general election, requests are accepted from August 17, 2026 through October 23, 2026; hospital patients have an extra day to apply. Return the voted ballot by mail in the pre-addressed envelope, in a ballot drop box, or by hand delivery; it must be received by the county registrar no later than the close of polls on Election Day. The Secretary of State's absentee voting guide says postage must be affixed when mailing, and that a voted ballot can be returned by the voter, by a family member designated in O.C.G.A. 21-2-385(a) or by a person living in the voter's household. Check with your county elections office for the drop box locations available to you. If you miss the request deadline, you can still vote in person during early voting or on Election Day. Read from: sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-voting
- Early voting (advance voting in person)Advance voting for the November 3, 2026 general election runs from October 13, 2026 through October 30, 2026. Counties must offer voting on Saturday, October 17 and Saturday, October 24, 2026, and a county can also offer it on Sunday, October 18 and/or Sunday, October 25, 2026. You can vote at any early voting location in your county; find one on My Voter Page or with the Secretary of State's Advance Voting Location Information search. Photo ID is required when voting in person (see What to bring). The Secretary of State's pages do not print daily hours; contact your county election office. Read from: sos.ga.gov/how-to-guide/how-guide-voting
- Track your absentee ballotIf you voted by absentee ballot, you can check its status on My Voter Page, the Secretary of State's voter portal. The same portal lets you check your registration and shows the early voting locations in your county, your assigned Election Day polling place and a sample ballot. If your absentee ballot never arrives, contact your county elections office; it can issue a new one or tell you how to cancel that ballot so you can vote in person. Read from: sos.ga.gov/page/elections-faq
- Fixing a problem with your absentee ballotFor the November 3, 2026 general election, the Secretary of State's calendar sets the absentee ballot cure deadline at 5:00 p.m. on November 6, 2026: the last day voters can cure timely submitted absentee ballots for a missing signature or an information mismatch. The Secretary of State's absentee voting guide says that if the ID number is missing, does not match what is on record, or other documentation is not sufficient, your county will contact you and provide a document with which you can supply the necessary ID to verify your ballot. Read from: sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/forms/2026%20Elections%20Calendar_0.pdf
Read from: November 3, 2026 General Election | Georgia Secretary of State · 2026 ELECTION CALENDAR AND HIGHLIGHTS · 2026 ELECTION CALENDAR AND HIGHLIGHTS (2026 Short Calendar) · Election Calendar and Events | Georgia Secretary of State · The Elections Division of the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office | Georgia Secretary of State · How-to Guide: Voting | Georgia Secretary of State — Rules and dates as of Sep 17, 2026
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