U.S. Senator: Jon Ossoff, Mike Collins

Mike Collins (R)

As president of a trucking business, Collins said he’s keenly aware of rising gas prices, and he places the blame on the former president’s policies.

“I also know how we got to this point, and the reality is we got here because of those Bidenomics, that debacle that during the Biden administration, which John Ossoff fully supported, was what caused this historic inflation on everything,” Collins said at a recent press conference in Atlanta.

Collins’ platform calls for lowering housing costs by streamlining the permitting process to increase supply and lower costs. Collins credits the Trump administration for improving the economy through conservative fiscal policy and says he will help out in the Senate by cutting regulations and empowering the free market.

“You do that by getting taxes lower; you keep more money,” he said. “You do that by making sure that we become energy independent. How do you do that? That’s getting the EPA under control and regulations. You bring down taxes, get regulations under control, and you let the free market work, and that always brings down inflation. You just gotta give people the opportunity.”

Jon Ossoff (D)

In rallies and press conferences, Ossoff speaks about rising costs as a symptom of what he characterizes as government corruption.

“Even before (President Donald Trump) came on the scene, American politics was coin operated,” Ossoff said at a September rally in Athens. “Money goes in, favors come out. It’s been running on corporate money, secret money, billionaire money, both sides.

“This corruption is why nothing works for ordinary people,” he added. “It’s why you pay a fortune for prescriptions. It’s why your insurance company gets away with denying your cancer treatment after you paid your premiums for decades.”

Ossoff has listed the war in Iran, Trump’s import tariffs and allowing Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire as policies supported by Collins that have raised costs for Georgians.

Mike Collins (R)

Collins’ district is home to the University of Georgia, where 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley was murdered in 2024 by a Venezuelan man who had entered the country illegally.

Collins touts his sponsorship of the Laken Riley Act as one of his proudest accomplishments during his term in Congress. It was the first law signed by Trump during his second administration and requires DHS to detail undocumented immigrants accused of specific violent or non-violent crimes.

The department says more than 21,000 people had been arrested under the act as of January.

“Laken Riley’s tragic murder was a deliberate decision, a decision by an illegal criminal who had no remorse or caring for Laken, and a decision by my Senate opponent, Jon Ossoff and every single Democrat to open our borders, bring lawlessness to our communities and deliver pain and suffering to the American people,” Collins said during the 2026 Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas.

Jon Ossoff (D)

Ossoff has cast himself as an opponent to the Trump administration’s mass immigration enforcement and detention tactics.

He was one of 12 Senate Democrats to vote for Collins’ Laken Riley Act but has argued for a more humane approach to securing the southern border.

He has called for reform and oversight of ICE tactics and cosponsored legislation that would require approval from local governments and impact assessments before building and expanding ICE facilities like the one the agency had planned to build in Social Circle.

Ossoff’s office launched investigations into alleged abuses in ICE detention facilities, uncovering what he said are over 1,000 credible allegations of violations including inadequate nutrition, sexual abuse and abuse of pregnant women and children.

Mike Collins (R)

Collins says his record as a businessman and Congressman makes him the better candidate to help shape U.S. health policy.

Collins touts his support for a provision of the One Big Beautiful Act which created a $218 million award for Georgia’s rural hospitals and has promised to double that funding if elected to the Senate.

“My plan as your next U.S. senator is to use my business experience to build on that record and make life more affordable, more safe, and more prosperous for every Georgian,” Collins said at a July press conference in Forsyth. “And part of that means making healthcare more accessible and more affordable to every person in our state.”

“It’s no secret that our healthcare system in this country must be improved,” he added.

To accomplish that, Collins is calling for reforms including price transparency requiring companies to disclose the price of coverage or treatments without what he calls hidden fees and expanding Trump’s most favored nation drug pricing policies which ties some prescription drug prices to the lowest prices paid by patients in other developed nations.

Jon Ossoff (D)

Ossoff’s health platform has centered around pledges to lower costs and prevent insurance companies from unfairly denying care.

Ossoff touts his role in helping pass a provision of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act that capped insulin prices at $35 for people with Medicare.

Fellow Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock originally sponsored legislation capping the cost of the diabetes drug, which was later added to the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed with no Republican support after a tiebreaking vote from Vice President Kamala Harris.

Ossoff has also touts successful efforts to direct federal spending toward health projects in Georgia, including $2 million for a CT scanner in Blairsville and nearly $350,000 for a mobile behavioral health clinic in south Georgia.

He supports expanding Medicaid in Georgia and has offered sharp criticism for Collins’ support of the sweeping budget package known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which significantly cut Medicaid spending.

“Donald Trump and Mike Collins passed the largest Medicaid cut in American history when 50% of all births in Georgia are covered by Medicaid. 40% of all kids in Georgia are covered by Medicaid,” Ossoff said during an event in Atlanta in July. “And listen to this: 70% of Georgia seniors in nursing homes are covered by Medicaid. Then they attack the Affordable Care Act.”

Mike Collins (R)

Collins has spoken in support of the war, arguing that it has prevented Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.

“I support the administration’s efforts to make sure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon,” Collins said during a September press conference in Atlanta. “We’ve been at war with this Islamic terrorist regime for 47 years. I’ve got seven grandkids. The last thing we need to do is hand them an Iran with a nuclear weapon, and contrary to what Jon Ossoff says, he knows this. They were close to getting one.”

Jon Ossoff (D)

Ossoff has offered sharp criticism of the war in Iran, characterizing it as illegal, aimless and a catalyst for high gas prices.

“We need to end this war, and it’s a war that Donald Trump and Mike Collins lied us into,” Ossoff said during a recent press call with reporters. “Remember, they told us last year that Iran’s nuclear program had been obliterated, and then they told us this year that Iran’s nuclear program posed an imminent threat, and both times they were lying. They declared victory on the fourth day of the war. They’ve told us over and over again it would just be a few more days, and they’ve lied every step of the way about war. And now Georgians are paying the price.”