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The Republican Senate nominee successful Georgia, Mike Collins, who has been plagued by a drawstring of controversies successful his clip successful nationalist office, has adjacent ties pinch a achromatic nationalist influencer – his son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II – it has transpired.
A trucking executive and one-time “Freedom caucus” blimpish endorsed by Donald Trump, Collins has been nan GOP typical for Georgia’s 10th legislature territory since 2023. In that time, nan anti-abortion hardliner has drawn scrutiny complete his associations pinch far-right and extremist figures, incendiary societal media activity and accusations of antisemitism, which he has denied. He has besides denied nan legitimacy of nan 2020 predetermination and defended January 6 rioters, who he has said deserved pardons.
Collins won nan Republican information successful June, but enters nan title arsenic an underdog successful a authorities that Trump won successful 2024, against rising Democratic prima Jon Ossoff successful November’s midterm elections.
Scheer, who is joined to Collins’s girl Summer, is simply a pro-white nationalist and societal media influencer pinch a history of sharing antisemitic worldly and sentiment and Nazi imagery connected nan internet. Among them are posts from nan neofascist, achromatic supremacist dislike group Patriot Front, which descended connected Washington DC this Fourth of July wearing achromatic masks and brandishing nan Confederate flag.
According to CNN, Scheer is registered to ballot astatine a Collins-owned spot successful Georgia, has been featured successful Collins’s run photos, and was astatine Collins’s triumph statement aft he won nan Republican superior successful June.
On societal media, Scheer has complete 1.5 cardinal followers crossed platforms TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Telegram, wherever he posts astir fitness, Christianity and masculinity. He has promoted achromatic nationalist ideology, shared antisemitic conspiracy theories, called for Muslims to beryllium deported and shared an antisemitic infographic, which he said his woman made.
On a podcast successful past November, Scheer warned that achromatic group were being driven toward extinction and said restoring an America populated by group of achromatic European descent would require “clearing our onshore of different people”. He later pushed for keeping Somalis, Mexicans and Nigerians successful their location countries truthful he could “enjoy my portion of this world pinch my people”. Scheer besides blamed “Israel and Zionist Jews” for policies he said were intended to “undermine nan white, Christian quality of America”. He besides said: “I do judge that nan much homogenous a civilization is, nan much it thrives.”
He precocious asked his followers to ballot connected a canvass whether he should make a video connected “why Gen-Z doesn’t dislike Hitler”. He later deleted it, but CNN saved it. He has besides invoked nan antisemitic “Jewish Bolsheviks” conspiracy theory, which falsely portrayed communism and nan Bolshevik gyration arsenic a Jewish plot. It was embraced by nan Nazis, who scapegoated Jews arsenic to blasted for Germany’s socio-economic illness aft nan first world war.
Within a YouTube remark conception from a video posted successful November 2025, Scheer liked a remark successful German quoting a 1930s marching opus co-opted by nan Nazis called “Erika”. In English it translates to: “On nan heath, location blooms a small flower.”
In an Instagram post from June 2025, Scheer posted a meme of a family cradling a babe pinch an eagle successful nan background, pinch a matter overlay reading: “I want to make babies Not dice for Israel.” The caption reads: “If you haven’t noticed, we each person a communal enemy.” The image utilized comes from a 1930s Nazi propaganda and recruitment poster, which features a quote that translates to: “The Nazi Party protects nan people’s community.”
Scheer has besides claimed that Jews are responsible for porn, nan assassinations of JFK and blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk, and nan 9/11 panic attacks, and has repeated nan conspiracy mentation that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad supplier and blackmailed politicians into supporting an “Israel First” agenda.
In a post past twelvemonth connected Telegram, Scheer shared an infographic claiming Jews power nan US authorities done financial influence, attributing nan schematic to his wife. The infographic claimed that Jewish donors, defense groups and institutions had captured US authorities and were directing US overseas argumentation connected behalf of Israel.
On Telegram successful June 2025, Scheer besides posted a bid of antisemitic infographics blaming Jews for being responsible for “every azygous aspect” of weapon control, abortion, nan LBGTQ activity and “pornography and hook up culture”. Two of nan infographics claimed that Jews power nan media and nan Federal Reserve. They show pictures of salient Jewish politicians, activists, economists and business owners pinch nan Star of David connected their foreheads aliases by their names.
The Guardian reached retired to Collins’s run for comment. In a connection to CNN, it did not reside questions regarding Scheer and his societal media activity. A spokesperson for Collins said: “Rep. Collins’ lifelong support for Israel is unquestionable and backed by his accordant grounds successful Congress of opinionated up for Israel and her people.”
The Guardian has reached retired to Scheer for comment.
