Collins worked as an intern for Georgia U.S. representative Ed Jenkins before working as a salesman, selling hazardous material safety products to Georgia's state and local governments.[5] From 1994 to 2005, Collins was a senior pastor at Chicopee Baptist Church while co-owning a retail scrapbooking store with his wife, Lisa.[6][7] Collins worked as a lawyer and has been a managing partner at the Collins and Csider law firm since 2010.[8]
Collins served three terms in the Georgia House of Representatives, representing Georgia's 27th district from 2007 to 2013. After Republican incumbent state representative Stacey Reece decided he would run for the Georgia State Senate, Collins announced he would run for the vacated seat. He won both the primary and general elections unopposed.[11] He was unopposed for reelection in 2008 and 2010.[12][13]
Tenure
In 2011, Collins sponsored a plan proposed by Georgia governor Nathan Deal to reform Georgia's HOPE Scholarship program.[14] The bill allowed for a 10% cut in scholarships and raised the level of SAT test scores and GPA required to obtain a scholarship, saving the state $300 million.[15] Collins argued that the program would be insolvent without the cut, saying that "If you look at it at the end of the day, Georgia still leads the way in providing hope—educational hope—for those wanting to go on to post-secondary education."[16] In 2012, he supported amending Georgia's constitution to establish a statewide commission authorizing and expanding charter schools.[17][18]
Collins supports the death penalty and voted for allowing juries to use the death penalty without a unanimous verdict if the defendant committed at least one "statutory aggravating circumstance."[19] He is against physician-assisted suicide, voting in favor of making it a felony for anyone who "knowingly and willingly" assists someone in a suicide.[20] Collins voted for the failed Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Requirement, requiring doctors to give women who are undergoing an abortion the option of a free ultrasound, or to listen to the fetal heartbeat.[21] He also voted in favor of Georgia's law to prohibit abortions past the 20th week, being one of the most restrictive early abortion bans in the country.[22]
Collins supported President Donald Trump's 2017 executive order to impose a temporary ban on entry to the U.S. for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries. He stated that "The executive order allows re-entry to lawful permanent residents and does not represent a comprehensive ban on entry to people from certain countries. In this temporary measure, President Trump has given us the opportunity to get refugee policy right going forward."[24]
Committee assignments
In the 2011–2012 legislative session, Collins was one of three administrative floor leaders for Georgia governor Nathan Deal.[25] Collins served on the committees for:[7]
In 2012, Collins ran for Congress in the redrawn 9th congressional district. The district's incumbent, Tom Graves, opted instead to run in the newly created 14th district, which had absorbed his home in Ranger. Collins faced local media personality Martha Zoller and retired principal Roger Fitzpatrick in the Republican primary. The 9th was the most Republican district in the Eastern Time Zone, with a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+27. As a result, whoever won the Republican primary would almost certainly be the district's next representative in Congress.
Collins finished first in the primary with 42 percent of the total, but just 700 votes ahead of Zoller. Because neither had a majority, a runoff was held on August 21, 2012, and Collins defeated Zoller in that contest 55 percent to 45 percent.[26][27] In the general election, Collins defeated Democrat Jody Cooley 76 percent to 24 percent.[28][29]
After running unopposed in the 2016 election, Collins faced Democratic challenger Josh McCall in the 2018 election.[30] Collins overwhelmingly defeated McCall with 79.6% of the vote, compared to McCall's 20.4%.[31]
In January 2020, Collins announced his candidacy for the United States Senate. He ran in the special election held in November 2020 to complete the final two years of the term of retiring senator Johnny Isakson, who stepped down on December 31, 2019, citing health issues. Collins faced incumbent senator Kelly Loeffler, a Republican appointed by Georgia governor Brian Kemp to fill the seat until a special election was held.[33] Trump had supported Collins as a replacement for Isakson.[34]
Collins faced some initial resistance to his candidacy from senior Senate Republicans as well as from the Senate Leadership Fund (a political action committee aligned with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell) and from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, both of which backed Loeffler.[35] Per Georgia election law, all candidates for that Senate seat (regardless of political party) competed in a nonpartisan blanket primary. If no candidate successfully earned over 50% of the vote, the top two finishers would participate in a runoff election in January 2021.[36]
After both Collins, who finished third in the primary, and Trump lost their respective races in Georgia, they made claims about fraud in the Georgia elections.[37] Georgia's Republican secretary of state Brad Raffensperger called Collins a "liar" and "charlatan" for his statements.[38] Collins endorsed Loeffler in the runoff election following his primary defeat.[39]
Political positions
Abortion
Collins opposes abortion. Hours after Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September 2020, Collins wrote on Twitter: "RIP to the more than 30 million innocent babies that have been murdered during the decades that Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended pro-abortion laws. With @realDonaldTrump nominating a replacement that values human life, generations of unborn children have a chance to live."[40]
Health care
Collins opposes the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. He called it an "experiment [that] has continued to fail America" and "costly for my neighbors". Collins said the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 would not result in anyone losing health coverage.[41]
Donald Trump
Collins has been described as an "ardent Trump ally."[42] He strongly defended Trump during his impeachment inquiry over the Trump-Ukraine scandal.[43] During his bid for the Georgia Senate seat in 2020, Collins campaigned with Roger Stone, a Trump associate and convicted criminal whose sentence Trump commuted earlier in 2020.[44][45] Among the two major Republican contenders for the 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia, Kelly Loeffler and Collins tried to distinguish themselves by claiming to be the most "pro-Trump."[46]
House speakerNancy Pelosi issued a statement that called signing the amicus brief an act of "election subversion." Additionally, Pelosi reprimanded Collins and the other House members who supported the lawsuit: "The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House. Instead of upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution, they chose to subvert the Constitution and undermine public trust in our sacred democratic institutions."[52][53]
In his opening statement during Robert Mueller's testimony to Congress regarding Trump's alleged involvement with Russian interference in the 2016 election, Collins said, "We will need to... ensure that government intelligence and law enforcement powers are never again used and turned on a private citizen or a political candidate as a result of the political leanings... If we carry anything away today it must be that we increase our vigilance against foreign election interference while we ensure our government officials don't weaponize their power against the constitutional rights guaranteed to every US citizen."[55] Individuals called to testify in impeachment hearings suggested that Trump held up delivery of Congressionally legislated aid to Ukraine in order to pressure its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, into investigating Joe Biden.[56][57] On October 31, 2019, Collins stated, and repeated on other occasions, that the impeachment hearings enacted to investigate Trump's use of his authority to pressure a foreign government to investigate his political rival, were a "sham".[58]
Tax reform
Collins voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.[59] He said the bill would encourage businesses to create more jobs and that the economy and communities would strengthen. He said, "We're making the IRS less ravenous and putting more money back in the hands of American families so that they can pursue more of their ambitions on their own terms."[60]
The American Conservative Union gave him a 100% in 2012 (Georgia State legislature) and a 91% evaluation in 2017.
LGBTQ rights
Collins opposes same-sex marriage.[64] In 2015, he said, "I strongly support a constitutional amendment defining marriage between one man and one woman."[64] He co-sponsored the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act and the State Marriage Defense Act.[65]
Collins has written letters in defense of military chaplain Wes Modder, whom the Navy attempted to fire after he had allegedly berated students at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (where he was posted) who had gone to him for counseling. Modder allegedly made anti-gay comments and berated students for engaging in premarital sex.[68]
Foreign policy
In the aftermath of the January 2020 killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, Collins said during an interview on Lou Dobbs Tonight that Democrats were "in love with terrorists" and "mourn Soleimani more than they mourn our Gold Star families who are the ones who suffered under Soleimani."[69][70] Democratic responses were quick, with Senator Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran who lost both legs in combat, responding, "I left parts of my body behind fighting terrorists in Iraq. I don't need to justify myself to anyone."[71] After first defending his claims on Fox News, Collins apologized on Twitter, saying, "Let me be clear: I do not believe Democrats are in love with terrorists, and I apologize for what I said earlier this week."[72]
Collins married his wife, Lisa Jordan, in 1988. She is a retired fifth grade teacher at Mount Vernon Elementary School in Gainesville, Georgia, where the couple resides with their three children, Jordan, Copelan, and Cameron, one of whom has spina bifida.[74] Collins is a practicing Southern Baptist, and attends Lakewood Baptist Church.[75][76][77]
^"VOTE FREEDOM FIRST ON MAY 24th – VOTE DOUG COLLINS FOR U.S. HOUSE!". nrapvf.org. NRA-PVF. Archived from the original on August 17, 2023. Retrieved August 17, 2023. The NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) has endorsed Doug Collins in the Republican Primary for U.S. House in Georgia's 9th Congressional District.
Sullivan, Margaret (December 5, 2019). "Wall-to-wall impeachment coverage is not changing any minds. Here's how journalists can reach the undecided". The Washington Post. Columnist Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times offered a name Wednesday for one aspect of what's happening before our eyes. Responding to the absurd statement of Rep. Douglas A. Collins (R-Ga.) — "there are no set facts here" — she said it summed up the long-term Republican strategy: "epistemological nihilism."
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