Congressman Mike Collins Misspells Residence State of Georgia in Marketing campaign Advert

Congressman Mike Collins launched his marketing campaign for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat with a marketing campaign video that misspelled his house state’s title.

On the finish of the marketing campaign video, printed on X on Sunday, July 27, Collins unveiled a slogan studying, “Georgia, Let’s Experience.” The slogan spelled his state as “Georiga.” The video stays up on his X web page.

The clip was met with a direct response on X, with observers making enjoyable of the spelling mistake. “The place is Georiga?” one particular person requested. “Realizing spell the title of your personal state ought to no less than be a baseline requirement for working for the Senate,” one other X consumer wrote.

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Collins’ marketing campaign additionally printed a video on YouTube on Monday, July 28, with out the “Georgia, Let’s Experience” slogan. 

Collins, 58, has represented Georgia’s tenth congressional district since January 2023 and has branded himself as a robust supporter of President Donald Trump. He’s working for the Republican nomination to face incumbent U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat. 

The Georgia Republican co-owns a household trucking agency and first ran for Congress in 2014. His father, the late Mac Collins, served within the U.S. Home from 1993 to 2005 and ran an unsuccessful U.S. Senate marketing campaign in 2004.

In March 2024, Mike Collins launched the Laken Riley Act, which is called after a Georgia resident who was killed by a person who entered the nation illegally, within the Home. The act, which was signed into legislation by Trump in January 2025 and earned bipartisan assist within the Home and Senate, requires non-citizens charged with theft to be detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Collins additionally drew consideration in February 2024, when he was quickly suspended from X for suggesting an individual federal authorities arrested needs to be transported by “Pinochet Air,” referencing Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. He additionally drew criticism in March 2024, when he promoted a submit from an antisemitic account, per the Related Press.

Ossoff is the one incumbent Democratic senator from a state Trump received in 2024 who’s up for re-election in November 2026. He received his seat alongside Sen. Raphael Warnock, who can be a Democrat, in November 2022.