Jon Ossoff: If John Lewis Were Marching In Selma Today, "Mike Collins Would Be Grabbing A Billy Club"
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During Thursday night's Georgia Senate debate (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/10/08/watch_live_jon_ossoff_and_mike_collins_face_off_in_georgia_senate_debate.html), Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff said his GOP rival

MODERATOR: Georgia has been at the center of fights over voting rules and election administration. What voting rules should be left to Georgia to decide, and when, if ever, should the federal government step in? Senator, 60 seconds.

SEN. JON OSSOFF (D-GA): Well, look, Georgia has voter ID, and that's good.

Mike Collins and Donald Trump, they're still obsessed with overturning the 2020 election. Mike Collins still believes the 2020 election was stolen. Mike Collins has supported Donald Trump's effort to overturn the election, and he wants to give your tax dollars to the violent thugs and criminals who sacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

Mike Collins is attacking your voting rights, but that's not a surprise when you consider who Mike Collins is.
This is a man who cheered on a group of young men who were mocking a Black woman on a college campus with monkey sounds.

If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club.
His office has been in cahoots with some of the most notorious white supremacists in the country. He himself has amplified neo-Nazi propaganda.

He's never apologized for it, and he should tonight.

MODERATOR: Congressman Collins, you have 60 seconds.

REP. MIKE COLLINS (R-GA): Yeah, you know, I'll say this: Voters need confidence. They need to know, y'all, we live in the best country in the world, and there's no reason that we shouldn't have the most secure elections in the world.

Jon Ossoff has voted against the SAVE Act numerous times.

Georgia, you're right, has a voter ID law, and we've seen historic amounts of people that have voted since that has been in place. But we need that across the country.

There's no reason that you shouldn't have to show an ID to go in and vote.

My goodness, Jon Ossoff requires you to show an ID to show up at his rally, but he doesn't think you need to do that to go vote.

People will go vote when they have confidence in our elections. Until then, it is hard, and they just want to make sure that it is a fair, equitable election out there.