Georgia Senate Race Enters Final Week as Obama, Collins and Trump Allies Campaign

Georgia's closely watched U.S. Senate race entered its final week with both parties holding events for their candidates. Republican Rep. Mike Collins, a trucking company owner, is challenging Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, and voters decide the contest in one week. Former President Barack Obama is scheduled to headline a rally for Georgia Democrats, with Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is running in a Georgia race, among those he hopes to boost, CBS News reported.

Collins held a rally at the Buford Community Center in Buford on Monday night, where he stressed Republican turnout in a midterm election. In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on Tuesday, Collins said he spoke privately with President Donald Trump after Saturday's rally in Perry, Georgia, where Trump announced a $4.2 billion investment by German automaker Audi. Collins said he described his role in preparing Georgia's infrastructure for that investment. He also predicted fuel prices will fall after Election Day, and said over half of the rally attendees he spoke with were attending a Trump rally for the first time.

Right-leaning outlets lead with Collins. Fox News frames its story around an exclusive interview, with a headline on his gas price prediction and details on his Trump conversation, the Audi investment and a joke about Ossoff's makeup artist. The Daily Signal's headline and excerpt center on a Collins rally in Buford, quoting his turnout message and criticizing Ossoff's record. Left-leaning CBS News instead leads with Obama's planned rally and names Ossoff and Bottoms as the beneficiaries, with no Collins quotes in the excerpt. Both sides cover the Georgia race and its closing week, but they focus on different headliners: Trump and Collins on the right, Obama and Democrats on the left. Alternative or independent outlets had not reported this story at the time of writing, while left- and right-leaning outlets had.