Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff and his Republican challenger, Representative Mike Collins, debate Tuesday night for the second and last time before November 3, with the race leaning toward the incumbent. The matchup closes the Atlanta Press Club's debate series on the same day early voting opens across Georgia. "The trial of Mike Collins" is how Ossoff framed their first meeting, an Atlanta News First debate last Thursday.
He spent the hour going after Collins on alleged ties to white nationalists, a pending ethics investigation and his loyalty to Trump, more than a dozen times in all. Collins painted Ossoff as an out-of-touch liberal and stood by Trump's tariffs and the war against Iran. Ossoff won his seat in 2020.
This is his first reelection, and it is the only Democratic Senate seat on the ballot in a state Donald Trump carried two years ago. Collins, who represents Georgia's 10th Congressional District, won the GOP nomination in a June runoff. Republicans control the Senate 53-47.
For a majority, Democrats would have to flip four seats and hold every one they already have, Georgia among them. Newsweek reached out to Ossoff and Collins campaigns for comment. The Senate debate begins at 8 p.m.
ET on Tuesday, October 13, live from Georgia Public Broadcasting’s studios in Midtown Atlanta. It will be available via the Atlanta Press Club live stream and in the player below. Ossoff has led in every public poll released since the summer.
How big the lead is depends on who is asking. https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/30555637/ Trafalgar Group, a firm generally regarded as leaning Republican, released the newest numbers: Ossoff 51 percent, Collins 43 percent, with 5.9 percent undecided. The survey of 1,101 likely voters ran October 7 to 9 and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points. In September, the same pollster had Ossoff up 6.
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