GOP Senate Candidate’s Campaign Ad Misspells Name of Own State

The U.S. Senate campaign of Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) added a 51st state to the union on Monday when it released an ad that misspelled Georgia.

Collins is aiming to unseat Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) next year, after Ossoff pulled off an upset win in a runoff in January 2021. First, Collins will have to win the Republican primary against Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) and potentially Derek Dooley, a former head football coach at the University of Tennessee and at Louisiana Tech.

“You know, this place is broken,” Collins says to begin the spot. “Out of touch Democrats like our two U.S. Senators will fight harder for MS-13 gang members than they will nursing students at UGA.”

The ad briefly shows Collins looking through a rifle sight at an undisclosed target and audio from President Donald Trump.

“Mike Collins, great job you’re doing,” Trump says in the video.

“I’m gonna put the hammer down and we’re gonna get it done,” Collins says right before text appears on screen reading:

GEORIGA, LET’S RIDE

Collins’s campaign account tweeted the video, which as of this writing remains up, nearly three hours after being posted.

The lawmaker garnered a bit of media attention earlier this month when he blamed the civil unrest in the summer of 2020 on Joe Biden, who was not yet president.

“Summer of love, where rioters were out there burning police stations, assaulting officers, taking over our cities, where they were advocating to defund the men and women in blue who protect us,” he said at a House Republican press conference. This month the congressman also claimed that Biden “sent the orders” to would-be assassins to kill Trump.

Watch above via Mike Collins for U.S. Senate.