Mike Collins fires staffer over ‘despicable and unauthorized’ X post

Published May 22, 2026 10:57pm ET



Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) fired one of his staffers over a post on X, made on the Mike Collins War Room account, which he decried as “despicable and unauthorized.”

Earlier on Friday, Luke Thompson, an adviser to Collins’s Republican runoff primary rival Derek Dooley, shared polling data showing Dooley ahead of Collins in a potential matchup with incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA). The Mike Collins War Room account responded with a crude sexual reference targeting Thompson’s wife.

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