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Fox News reports:
Mike Collins has won the Republican primary runoff election in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District, defeating Trump-backed Vernon Jones for the GOP nomination.
The win for Collins, who had 78% of the vote to Jones’ 24% when the Associated Press called the race, is seen as a loss for former President Donald Trump, who while not on the ballot had his clout with the GOP on the line in the primary runoff.
Trump was supporting Jones, a former state lawmaker and Democrat turned Republican who was a top Black surrogate for the then-president in the Peach State during the 2020 election.
The Hill reports:
Jones, a former Democrat, had previously sought the Republican nomination for Georgia governor but dropped out of that race after Trump promised to endorse him in the 10th District contest.
Collins, meanwhile, scored the endorsement of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) last week, effectively turning the primary runoff into a proxy war between Trump and the state’s Republican chief executive.
Georgia’s 10th District heavily favors Republicans, meaning Collins’s win puts him on track to easily win the seat in November.
Jones last appeared on JMG in April 2022, when he declared that being gay in choice, saying, “When did gays come over on ships?”
Well, Vernon Jones isn’t taking this defeat with grace — but he did just acknowledge that Biden defeated Trump. #gapol https://t.co/PoSt7pHFUM
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) June 22, 2022
Mike Collins wins GOP nomination, defeating Trump-backed candidate Vernon Jones https://t.co/kMWJpZTnSN
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 22, 2022