Republican Rep. Mike Collins claims he’s on a roll after announcing his bid Monday to unseat incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff in the Peach State.

Former Congressman Mac Collins, a truck driver-turned-lawmaker who helped build Georgia’s Republican Party, died Tuesday, according to several GOP officials. He was 74.

“Leland Gregory is trying to use Mac Collins’s notoriety and political aspirations for leverage,” he said. The Collins campaign’s most recent filing showed $302,732 cash on hand.

Collins also had his TRANQ Act signed into law by then-President Joe Biden in 2023. That legislation directed the National Institute of Standards and Technology to study xylazine and synthetic opioids, which have taken a high toll on the lives of Americans. Collins was the first freshman member of the 118th Congress to have a bill signed into law.

The first thing that strikes you about Mac Collins’s original ash-wood Iklwa chair is the color. A searing ultramarine, it references the celestial blue of Afrofuturism and, with its throne-like ...

Rep. Mac Collins, R-Ga., seen here on Oct. 28, 1993, with his granddaughter Brittany (who was dressed as a green M&M for the Longworth House Office Building Halloween Party) died on Nov 20.