New polling shows Georgia Republican Rep. Mike Collins within “striking distance” of incumbent Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff in a hypothetical matchup for one of the Senate seats representing the Peach State.
The Cygnal poll, conducted from May 15 to May 17 among 800 likely voters, found Ossoff leading Collins 45.7% to 43.3%—well within the survey’s 3.41 percentage point margin of error.
The poll is more good news for Collins, 47, a second-term lawmaker who also garnered the most support in recent testing by the Trafalgar Group among four potential Republican candidates in a Senate primary in Georgia.
The remarkably strong polling comes despite the fact that Collins has not even formally entered the 2026 race. Ossoff, a liberal Democrat in his first term, is seen as vulnerable in a state that boasts both a Republican-majority state General Assembly and a…
