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If Ossoff loses, Democrats have almost no chance of winning a Senate majority. He’s the only senator from his party running for reelection in a state that Trump won two years ago.

If Ossoff loses, Democrats have almost no chance of winning a Senate majority. He's the only senator from his party running for reelection in a state that Trump won two years ago.

For this year’s campaign, Kemp rebuffed Senate Republican leaders’ encouragement to challenge Ossoff and declined to endorse either Collins or Carter. Instead, he recruited Dooley, a childhood family friend who is the son of legendary coach Vince Dooley, and tried to convince Georgia Republicans to take a chance on the first-time candidate.

For this year's campaign, Kemp rebuffed Senate Republican leaders' encouragement to challenge Ossoff and declined to endorse either Collins or Carter. Instead, he recruited Dooley, a childhood family friend who is the son of legendary coach Vince Dooley, and tried to convince Georgia Republicans to take a chance on the first-time candidate.

“My goal is here is to win our Senate seat back,” Kemp said Friday as he introduced Dooley at a gun store in Douglasville. “We need a political outsider to do that.”

“My goal is here is to win our Senate seat back,” Kemp said Friday as he introduced Dooley at a gun store in Douglasville. “We need a political outsider to do that.”

An unapologetic MAGA congressman Collins, 58, is a two-term House member who owns a trucking company and boasts of a “grassroots operation out there pounding the pavement across this state.”

Collins, 58, is a two-term House member who owns a trucking company and boasts of a “grassroots operation out there pounding the pavement across this state.”

The second-term House member has the advantage of representing a district east of Atlanta, putting him in the media market of the state’s population center. And he sponsored the Lakin Riley Act, named for a Georgia nursing student killed by a man who was also charged for being in the U.S. illegally. The law, signed by Trump last year, requires that immigrants accused of a range of crimes be held without bond.

The second-term House member has the advantage of representing a district east of Atlanta, putting him in the media market of the state’s population center. And he sponsored the Lakin Riley Act, named for a Georgia nursing student killed by a man who was also charged for being in the U.S. illegally. The law, signed by Trump last year, requires that immigrants accused of a range of crimes be held without bond.

“I have proven that I can deliver for the state of Georgia,” Collins said in Acworth. “I can even do it with bipartisan legislation. And I never compromise my conservative values.”

“I have proven that I can deliver for the state of Georgia,” Collins said in Acworth. “I can even do it with bipartisan legislation. And I never compromise my conservative values.”

Carter is in his sixth term but represents a Savannah-based district, a less populous corner of Georgia that’s rarely a launching pad for statewide campaigns. He’s pulled back on advertising in the closing weeks before the primary, suggesting that he’s lacking adequate financial support.

“Ole Miss taking care of business,” Collins wrote. Carter is in his sixth term but represents a Savannah-based district, a less populous corner of Georgia that's rarely a launching pad for statewide campaigns. He's pulled back on advertising in the closing weeks before the primary, suggesting that he's lacking adequate financial support.

“If taxpayers can’t trust you to properly steward their money, how can they trust you to be a U.S. senator?” Carter asked Collins in a recent debate.

“If taxpayers can’t trust you to properly steward their money, how can they trust you to be a U.S. senator?” Carter asked Collins in a recent debate.

“If you look around the country where Republicans have been successful beating Democratic incumbents, it has been political outsiders that have been victorious,” Kemp said.

“If you look around the country where Republicans have been successful beating Democratic incumbents, it has been political outsiders that have been victorious,” Kemp said.

“It comes down to who can beat Jon Ossoff,” he said. Barrow reported from Douglasville and Atlanta.

“It comes down to who can beat Jon Ossoff,” he said. Barrow reported from Douglasville and Atlanta.