Raw Story: “His response was to make his escape.”
Atlanta, Ga. — Yesterday, NRSC Chair Tim Scott fled from questions on GOP U.S. Senate nominee Mike Collins’ ties to white nationalism. According to new reporting, Scott’s “response was to make his escape.”
National Republicans like Scott refuse to condemn Collins as his U.S. Senate campaign continues to be plagued by controversies. Recent Washington Post reporting revealed a former Collins staffer uplifted Nazi imagery and depicted himself in a costume of the Ku Klux Klan. For months, Collins has come under fire for his “close ties” to white nationalism and his office’s work with notorious white nationalists — such as Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer — to try to get a Holocaust denier out of jail. Collins has also faced public outrage over his antisemitic harassment of a Jewish reporter and his praise for the viciously racist harassment with monkey sounds of a Black woman on a college campus.
WATCH SCOTT FLEE FROM QUESTIONS ON COLLINS’ TIES TO WHITE NATIONALISM
Scott’s refusal to answer questions about Collins’ white nationalist ties comes on the heels of Wall Street Journal reporting saying Collins’ campaign has “gone disastrously wrong” after “a summer of scandal” that includes an active federal investigation by the House Ethics Committee into Collins for allowing his former chief of staff, who had been convicted of criminal battery, to illegally funnel thousands of federal tax dollars to a girlfriend who did no work for the office. The bipartisan Office of Congressional Conduct report detailed how Collins “refused to cooperate” with the investigation before formally recommending that the Committee on Ethics subpoena the congressman.
Raw Story: GOP campaign chief flees questions about white nationalist-linked Senate candidate
By Matthew Chapman | September 17, 2026
KEY EXCERPTS
- National Republican Senatorial Committee chair Tim Scott (R-SC) was caught by reporters asking him for comment on Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), currently running in the Georgia Senate race, being linked to white nationalists.
- His response was to make his escape.
- “Are you worried about Mike Collins’ white nationalist ties, Senator Scott?” a reporter asked in a video uploaded to X. Scott completely ignored the reporter, continuing to walk down the hall away from her.
- Collins, currently trying to Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, has faced a string of reports connecting him to individuals espousing white nationalist and neo-Nazi views. In July 2026, CNN reported that […] David Alan Scheer II, had used his platform to promote Patriot Front, a designated neo-Nazi hate group, along with antisemitic conspiracy theories and calls for deporting Muslims.
- The scrutiny deepened in late August 2026, when The Washington Post reported that a former Collins staffer, 24-year-old Preston Parra, had posted swastika imagery and photos of himself dressed in Ku Klux Klan-style robes as recently as June and July of that year. Parra, who has described himself online as a “twink fascist,” also reportedly used racial slurs and quoted Nazi song lyrics in other posts.
- Ossoff has repeatedly cited the pattern of associations in campaign appearances, pointing not only to Scheer and Parra but also to earlier reporting that a self-described neo-Nazi propagandist had worked out of Collins’ home for his trucking business, and that Collins’ congressional office had briefed prominent white supremacists on their efforts to support a Holocaust denier.
- More than 50 Black Georgia state lawmakers signed a joint statement pressing Collins on the allegations, and Capital B News reported that even some Black Republican leaders in Georgia have grown reluctant to back his Senate campaign as a result.
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