Atlanta, Ga. — New CNN reporting details GOP U.S. Senate candidate Mike Collins’ close ties to white nationalism and neo-Nazi propaganda.

Sen. Jon Ossoff released the following statement in response to Collins’ latest scandal and extensive close ties to neo-nazism and white nationalism:  

“Only a known bigot and antisemite like Mike Collins would enable the ongoing spread of neo-Nazi propaganda. How much has Mike Collins paid neo-Nazi David Alan Scheer and is Scheer still based on Collins’ property? Mike Collins must apologize immediately for his and his office’s disqualifying ties to neo-Nazi ideology and notorious white supremacists.”

Excerpts from the CNN Report: 

• “Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins … has repeatedly drawn scrutiny over his associations with far-right figures”

• “Scheer, who is married to Collins’ daughter, Summer, is featured in family photographs on Collins’ campaign website and social media. He attended Collins’ Senate primary election-night victory party and appears to have helped produce promotional work for Collins’ trucking company. Scheer is registered to vote at a Collins-owned property adjacent to the congressman’s large home in Georgia.”

• Scheer who, according to CNN, lives at a “Collins-owned property … has promoted White nationalist ideology, spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, called for Muslims to be deported and shared an antisemitic infographic targeting Jews that he said his wife (Collins’ daughter) made.”

• … “Latest example of a far-right figure in Collins’ orbit as he faces off against Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff in a pivotal race.”

• Collins “has faced repeated criticism for his associations with far-right and extremist figures. In May, he fired a longtime aide who posted from Collins’ campaign account mocking a rival campaign adviser’s wife and her sexual assault claims.”

• “Scheer has espoused hateful rhetoric against Jews and Muslims. Just weeks ago, after a monthslong social media hiatus, Scheer asked his followers on Telegram, which he has linked to on other platforms, to vote on a poll on whether he should make a video on ‘why Gen-Z doesn’t hate Hitler.’ He later deleted the poll, but CNN saved the post.”

• “Scheer encouraged viewers to “do some digging” into who writes history textbooks while earlier claiming Jews were responsible for “porn,” “killing JFK,” the 9/11 terror attacks and the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.”

• “Collins’ campaign did not address CNN’s questions regarding Scheer and his comments across social media.”

• “In a post last year on Telegram, Scheer shared an infographic claiming Jews control the US government through financial influence, attributing the graphic to his wife.

• “The infographic argued that Jewish donors, advocacy groups and institutions had captured American politics and were directing US policy on behalf of Israel. One panel claimed that an ‘ethnically cohesive interest group’ had seized control of US foreign policy and concluded: ‘This is treason.’ Scheer encouraged followers to ‘Save it and Share it everywhere.’”

• “On Telegram in June 2025, Scheer also posted a series of antisemitic infographics blaming Jews for being responsible for ‘every single aspect’ of gun control, abortion, the LBGTQ movement and ‘pornography and hook up culture.’ Two claimed that Jews control the media and the Federal Reserve. The infographics show pictures of prominent Jewish politicians, activists, economists and business owners with the Star of David on their foreheads or by their names.”

• “Collins previously faced criticism in 2024 over alleged antisemitic social media posts, his defense of January 6 rioters who he said deserved pardons and his associations with far-right activists and staffers.”

• “In a podcast posted last November, Scheer warned that White people were being driven toward extinction, saying ‘they’re trying to kill us’ and claiming their share of the global population had fallen from 30% in the 1950s to 7%.”

• “He argued that restoring community required ‘clearing our land of other people’ and later pushed for keeping Somalis, Mexicans and Nigerians in their home countries so he could ‘enjoy my slice of this world with my people.’ Scheer also blamed ‘Israel and Zionist Jews’ for policies he said were intended to “undermine the White Christian nature of America.’”

Sen. Ossoff’s opponent Mike Collins continues to face a slew of scandals involving his blatant bigotry, antisemitism, and corruption, including an active federal investigation into the illegal misuse of tax dollars, renewed scrutiny over Collins’ office’s ties to prominent white supremacists and efforts to free a Holocaust denier from jail, as well as outrage over his antisemitic harassment of a Jewish reporter and praise for a young man who harassed a Black woman by making monkey sounds. 

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