{"id":2634109,"date":"2026-07-23T12:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/collins-hits-ossoff-over-out-of-state-funding-as-democrat-raises-eye-popping-numbers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:19:50","slug":"collins-hits-ossoff-over-out-of-state-funding-as-democrat-raises-eye-popping-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/collins-hits-ossoff-over-out-of-state-funding-as-democrat-raises-eye-popping-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins hits Ossoff over out-of-state funding as Democrat raises eye-popping numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcollins-hits-ossoff-over-out-of-state-funding-as-democrat-raises-eye-popping-numbers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2634109&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Georgia Republican Senate candidate Rep. Mike Collins is taking a different stance from pundits by criticizing opponent Jon Ossoff for his fundraising approach, highlighting that a important portion of Ossoff\u2019s money originates from out-of-state donors, with only 17% coming from Georgians. Ossoff raised over $20 million in the second quarter, bringing his total war chest to more then $42 million-almost 20 times more than Collins\u2019s approximately $2 million. Despite Ossoff\u2019s extensive fundraising success and widespread support across Georgia,Collins,who has faced controversies and a competitive primary,claims his support mainly comes from local Georgians. Ossoff\u2019s campaign emphasizes its broad statewide grassroots backing,receiving donations from nearly all 159 counties. While Ossoff has maintained a lead in most polls, Collins has been absent from recent Trump rallies and faces a challenging race as Georgia\u2019s political landscape remains competitive, with the state having voted for Trump in 2024 despite currently sending two Democrats to the Senate.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/georgia\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"164\">Georgia<\/a> Republican Senate candidate Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-collins\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"17647\">Mike Collins<\/a> (R-GA) is taking a different approach than pundits as he talks about Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jon-ossoff\/\">Jon Ossoff\u2019s<\/a> (D-GA) fundraising numbers, hitting the incumbent on the number of out-of-state donors he has received.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ossoff pulled in $20 million in the second quarter, situating him with over $42 million in cash-on-hand as he pulls into the general election race against Collins. As headlines circulate regarding <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4649348\/jon-ossoff-20-million-fundraising-georgia-senate-race\/\">Ossoff\u2019s strong Q2 fundraising haul<\/a>, Trump-endorsed Collins is drawing attention to the number of non-Georgians he says are donating to Collins\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4660513\/collins-ossoff-out-state-funding\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Collins hits Ossoff over out-of-state funding as Democrat raises eye-popping numbers<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4660641\/democrats-11-million-roy-cooper-senate-flip-blue-against-michael-whatley\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Democrats dump $11 million behind Roy Cooper in North Carolina Senate race after slip in polls<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4660560\/democrats-ok-night-triumph-midterm-elections-joe-concha\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Democrats only need \u2018a C+ kind of night\u2019 to triumph in midterm elections: Joe Concha<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJon Ossoff doesn\u2019t represent Georgia \u2014 he represents his out-of-state donors,\u201d Collins <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeCollinsGA\/status\/2080017532040134781?s=20\">wrote<\/a> on X. \u201cOnly 17% of his money comes from actual Georgians. The rest? Hollywood liberals, California cash, and DC swamp creatures. Georgians deserve a Senator who answers US \u2014 not them.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ossoff\u2019s $42 million war chest is nearly 20 times greater than his opponent\u2019s, as Collins lags with just over $2 million in cash-on-hand. Ossoff has been one of the Senate\u2019s most proven fundraisers, raising the most money of any Senate candidate since 2021, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/raising-bythenumbers\/\">according<\/a> to FEC data. But the Collins campaign also was bogged down in a competitive primary and runoff election and has been <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4656178\/mike-collins-controversies-georgia-senate\/\">embroiled in several controversies<\/a> over the past several weeks, while Ossoff cruised through to the general election without a primary opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4656178\/mike-collins-controversies-georgia-senate\/\">MIKE COLLINS\u2019S CONTROVERSIES CLOUD GEORGIA SENATE BID<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Collins\u2019s campaign pulled in $2.1 million in Q2 compared to Ossoff\u2019s $20 million, his campaign manager, Josh Siegel, touted that Collins\u2019s \u201csupport comes from everyday Georgians because they know he will always put Georgia first.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFundraising reports tell you a lot about who a candidate really answers to,\u201d<strong> <\/strong>Siegel said. \u201cThere\u2019s a reason Jon Ossoff\u2019s biggest donors aren\u2019t in Georgia. His California and New York donors know exactly what they\u2019re funding: a senator who will push their socialist agenda in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite Collins\u2019s hits, Ossoff\u2019s campaign has touted its support across Georgia, highlighting that the campaign has received donations from nearly all 159 counties in the state. Collins\u2019s campaign said they received donations from all 159 counties in Q2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Ossoff campaign is building unstoppable grassroots momentum to push back against Republican dark money, power our massive and winning coalition over the next four months, and resoundingly defeat Trump loyalist Mike Collins at the ballot box come November,\u201d Ossoff campaign manager Ellen Foster said in a mid-July statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> has reached out to Ossoff\u2019s campaign for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ossoff has raised his national profile throughout the past several years, as pundits eye him as a possible <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4650686\/2028-campaign-cash-tracker\/\">2028 candidate<\/a>. An Emerson College poll released Thursday found that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/emersoncollegepolling.com\/july-2026-national-poll-democrats-with-11-point-generic-ballot-advantage\/\">13% of surveyed Democratic voters<\/a> would cast their ballots for the first-term Senator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4658862\/collins-absent-from-trump-georgia-rally-house-votes-keep-him-in-dc\/\">COLLINS ABSENT FROM TRUMP\u2019S GEORGIA RALLY AS HOUSE VOTES KEEP HIM IN DC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ossoff has led Collins by single digits in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/polls\/georgia-us-senate-election-polls-2026.html\">most polling<\/a> on the general election matchup, except for one Fox News-sponsored poll that had Ossoff up by 13 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the Peach State currently having two Democratic Senators, the state went for President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> in 2024 by a 2.2-point margin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-26\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collins criticizes Ossoff\u2019s out-of-state donors amid strong fundraising<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2634110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-collage-08ndlrchn-1783709710605-e1783710143400.jpg?1783695774&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[33926,15467,43554,50448],"class_list":["post-2634109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-campaign-finance","tag-fundraising","tag-georgia-politics","tag-jon-ossoff"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-collage-08ndlrchn-1783709710605-e1783710143400.jpg?1783695774&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634112,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634109\/revisions\/2634112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2634110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}