GOP Senate Candidate Who Dodged Questions About Son-in-Law’s White Nationalist Posts Now Dodging Similar Questions About Former Staffer

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Last month, Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) abruptly ended a press conference when asked about his son-in-law’s white nationalist posts. This month, he’s dodging questions about a former staffer who has also posted offensive content.

Collins, who represents a congressional district that includes Athens, is the Republican nominee challenging incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff’s (D-GA) re-election bid.

The Republican congressman has consistently trailed the senator in the polls and multiple election prognosticators have issued increasingly rosy predictions for Ossoff. Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics shifted Georgia’s Senate race from “Leans Democratic” to “Likely Democratic” last month; Nate Silver also rates the Peach State as “Likely D.”

Ossoff has been one of the most prolific fundraisers for this election cycle, putting his campaign war chest far ahead of Collins, who had to battle through a contested GOP primary and runoff.

Collins’ latest entanglement with white nationalists in his inner circle won’t help.

In July, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck reported that Collins’ son-in-law, influencer David Alan Scheer II, used his social media to promote the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front, spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, and call for Muslims to be deported.

At a press conference at the end of July, Collins refused to answer questions from reporters about Scheer’s posts and instead attacked Ossoff, quickly ended the presser, and walked away.

A new report by Liz Goodwin and Olivia George at The Washington Post described troubling posts made by Preston Parra, a 24-year-old who briefly interned for Collins in 2024 and worked as a contractor for the congressman’s PAC in 2025, shortly before Collins launched his Senate campaign. Parra was paid $7,700 by the PAC, according to federal campaign finance reports.

Parra’s controversial posts include writing “DEUTCHLAND UBER ALLES,” a misspelling of “Deutschland Über Alles,” the verse of the German national anthem that is no longer used because of its associations with the Nazi era; the phrase translates to “Germany over all.”

He has also written posts calling himself a “racist” and “twink fascist,” used racial slurs to refer to Black people, and posted the phrase “White Power” multiple times. One tweet included a photo of Parra wearing what looked like Ku Klux Klan robes and another used the word “TWINK” to draw a swastika.

Screenshot via X.

When reached for comment by the Post, Parra said he made the KKK post using the Grok AI feature in Elon Musk’s X platform, and claimed that that image and most of the other content he was posting was “satirical.”

Parra added he had made his social media private and Collins did not know about it, and argued he was “not a white supremacist because it goes against his religion and he has a Colombian father,” the Post reported.

However, Parra also stated, “I do think that the white race contributes more to the world.”

“Collins’s campaign did not respond to a question about whether he stood by his comment endorsing Parra’s work,” the Post noted.

The news of another person in Collins’ orbit making bigoted comments drew criticism from both sides of the political aisle, with Republicans growing increasingly concerned that Collins will lose not only his race, but drag down other Georgia Republicans on the November ballot.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, the problem is this is an ongoing pattern with those Mike Collins has hired and he has tended to keep them until it becomes too politically inconvenient,” wrote Georgia-based conservative radio host Erick Erickson.

Ossoff lambasted his Republican opponent over the latest news during a campaign speech Thursday, calling out “yet another connection between Congressman Mike Collins and white nationalism, between Congressman Mike Collins and neo-Nazi ideology,” adding that it was “disgraceful and disqualifying.”

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