JACKSON — U.S. Rep. Mike Collins kicked off his Senate campaign at a Tuesday rally with a message aimed at two audiences: The conservative Georgia voters who will decide the GOP nominee, and the president whose endorsement could reshape the race.

The Jackson Republican peppered his remarks with praise of President Donald Trump and bracing attacks against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff , with a promise that he’ll build the “most formidable grassroots” campaign in state history.

He painted Ossoff as a hopeless liberal “elected on a fluke, now spending his time doing lip service for our state.” And Trump, he said, was a game-changing president who earned his support early in the 2016 campaign for a simple reason.

“We need to run Washington like a business, and he’s just the man to do it

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