在周四晚间举行的乔治亚州参议院竞选辩论中，众议员迈克·柯林斯被指责为“偏执狂议员”，而参议员约翰·奥索夫则被讥讽为“靠杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的熟人资助的富家子弟”。
Rep. Mike Collins was accused of being a “bigot congressman” while Sen. John Ossoff was derided as a “trust fund kid” bankrolled by an associate of Jeffrey Epstein during Thursday night’s fiery Georgia Senate debate.
作为现任民主党议员，奥索夫在开场发言中率先发起人身攻击，称：“迈克·柯林斯因其个人偏见以及与白人至上主义者的密切联系，给我们州带来了耻辱。”此后双方互揭短处，攻击不断。
“Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists,” Ossoff, the Democratic incumbent, charged in his opening statement in the first of several personal attacks leveled by both candidates.
奥索夫多次指称这位共和党对手具有种族主义与反犹太主义倾向，还列举了涉及柯林斯本人、其幕僚及女婿的多起社交媒体丑闻。
The senator repeatedly suggested his GOP opponent was racist and antisemitic – invoking various social media scandals involving the congressman, his staff and his son-in-law.
奥索夫甚至说道：“倘若约翰·刘易斯如今要从塞尔玛向蒙哥马利进军，迈克·柯林斯肯定会挥舞警棍去阻拦。”
“If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club,” Ossoff said at one point.
随后，奥索夫又指责道：“你雇用了相当于‘第三帝国’成员的人来为你担任国会办公室工作人员，还在网上传播新纳粹内容，显然与白人至上主义者沆瀣一气。”
“[Y]ou’ve hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online,” the senator later claimed, accusing Collins of being “in cahoots” with white supremacists.
对此，共和党众议员柯林斯坚称：“我始终谴责种族主义、反犹太主义与仇恨行为，无论其来源如何。”他还补充道：“我也这样告诫我的女婿大卫·艾伦·希尔二世——据说他在社交媒体上发布过反犹太及白人至上主义言论。”
The Republican congressman insisted in response that “I’ve condemned racism, antisemitism, hate. I don’t care where the source is.”“And I tell him that too,” added Collins, seemingly referring to his son-in-law David Alan Scheer II, who allegedly shared anti-Jew and white nationalist rhetoric on social media.
“这种行为是错误的，这个世界容不下此类行径。”与此同时，柯林斯还抨击奥索夫支持极左翼候选人，并收受左翼亿万富翁里德·霍夫曼的竞选捐款。
“It’s wrong. We have no place in this world for that.”Meanwhile, Collins took aim at Ossoff’s support of far-left candidates and his receipt of campaign contributions from lefty billionaire Reid Hoffman.
柯林斯指责道：“我从未听他提及自己支持的密歇根州民主党社会党候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德，还有哈桑·皮克尔；至于里德·霍夫曼呢？他也只字不提。他从不谴责任何人或任何事，因为他自己就是那类人。”
“I’ve never heard him say a word about his DSA pick up there [in Michigan] … Abdul El-Sayed. Hasan Piker? How about Reid Hoffman? None of those. He doesn’t denounce anybody or anything or condemn them because he’s part of them,” Collins charged.
“他的主要金主之一便是数据中心行业的亿万富翁里德·霍夫曼，此人也是杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的密友。”
“One of his megadonors is data center billionaire Reid Hoffman, who is also one of Epstein’s buddies,” the congressman said.
“他有办法应对那些民众的诉求。不过他并不需要向本地民众交代。”柯林斯还抨击了这位参议员反对特朗普总统减税政策的行为，以及他在2025年秋季导致政府停摆中所扮演的角色。
“He’s got an answer to those people. He doesn’t have to answer to local people.”Collins also attacked the senator’s opposition to President Trump’s tax-cutting agenda and his role in the fall 2025 government shutdown.
“减税才是让更多钱留在民众口袋里的良策……可我的对手根本不明白这一点，”柯林斯说道。
“Tax cuts are the answer to keeping more money back in people’s pockets … but my opponent doesn’t get that,” Collins said.
“我的对手是个靠家族信托基金过活的富家子弟，这辈子从未工作过。他根本不懂这些，也不了解商业运作的实际情况。”
“My opponent’s a trust fund kid who’s never had a job in his life. He doesn’t understand that. He doesn’t understand business.”
这位众议员还指出：“就在去年这个时候，乔恩·奥索夫导致政府停摆了48天。就在我们努力为飓风‘海伦’的受灾地区筹集紧急救助资金、帮助当地农民和小社区修复设施并筹备今年的收成之际，他却强行让政府停摆。”
The congressman also noted that “it was just this time last year, that Jon Ossoff shut the government down for 48 days. He shut it down, y’all. Right when we were trying to get that emergency money out for Hurricane Helene so that our farmers and our small communities could repair and prepare for this year’s harvest.”
“他根本不在乎这些，”柯林斯强调道，“他这么做只是为了削减边境巡逻队和移民及海关执法局的资金……我们有权知道他为何任由边境处于无人管控的状态。”根据RealClearPolitics最新汇总的多项民调数据，在这场备受瞩目的参议院选举中，奥索夫目前以近8个百分点的优势领先于柯林斯。
“He didn’t care about that,” Collins argued. “He shut it down because he wanted to defund Border Patrol and ICE … we deserve to know why he left that border wide open.”The latest RealClearPolitics average of polls shows Ossoff with a nearly 8 percentage point advantage over Collins in the closely watched Senate race.