AJC: “U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is seizing on one of the most combustible issues in national politics by targeting U.S. Rep. Mike Collins over the Jeffrey Epstein files, launching his first TV attack ad of the general election with a seven-figure statewide buy.”

Atlanta, GA — New reporting from the AJC highlights Jon Ossoff for Senate’s first TV attack ad of the cycle, titled “The Vote,” which slams the Republican Senate nominee Mike Collins after he voted against releasing the Epstein files and only voted to release them once Trump said he could. The ad features a police sergeant who investigated sexual abuse and condemns Collins for voting against releasing the Epstein files.

Today’s AJC reporting highlights how “frustration” regarding the Epstein files “cuts across party lines,” and notes how Donald Trump and Mike Collins, in the face of public pressure from Senator Ossoff, “abruptly reversed course and urged Republicans to support disclosure.” 

The release of the ad comes as Collins faces a slew of scandals, including an active federal investigation into the illegal misuse of tax dollars, renewed scrutiny over his office’s ties to prominent white supremacists and its efforts to free a Holocaust denier, as well as outrage over his antisemitic harassment of a Jewish reporter and praise for the viciously racist harassment with monkey sounds of a Black woman on a college campus. 

AJC: Jon Ossoff targets Mike Collins over Epstein files in new ad
By Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam | July 14, 2026 

KEY EXCERPTS

• U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is seizing on one of the most combustible issues in national politics by targeting U.S. Rep. Mike Collins over the Jeffrey Epstein files, launching his first TV attack ad of the general election with a seven-figure statewide buy.

• The ad features a retired police sergeant who blasts Collins for siding with House Republicans last year to block a Democratic maneuver aimed at forcing the release of the Epstein files. 

• Collins later joined an overwhelming bipartisan vote to release the records after President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course and urged Republicans to support disclosure. […]

• The fight over the files exposed a GOP fracture in Georgia. Then-U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had for months urged Republicans to back the measure forcing the disclosure of the files about Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019. And it was a key issue in her messy public split with Trump. […]

• …Ossoff is folding the issue into a broader argument that Collins is a Trump loyalist unwilling to break with the president. Trump endorsed Collins, who ran as a MAGA loyalist, just days before the June runoff.

• There’s evidence the frustration cuts across party lines. A December Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll found about 90% of likely Democratic voters weren’t satisfied with the amount of information released about the case.

• But the more revealing number is among Republicans. More than one-third of likely GOP primary voters say they’re not content with the disclosure, including 15% who are very dissatisfied.

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