There are less than 100 days until the midterm elections in Georgia, but one question plaguing Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins is unlikely to go away before voters hit the polls in November.
Representative Collins, who serves in Georgia's 10th congressional district, is up against incumbent Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff for a nationally important seat. Collins was endorsed by President Trump shortly before the Republican primary runoff and the national GOP has started to pour more money into Collins' campaign in the hopes of unseating the sitting senator.
In recent weeks, Ossoff has created space between himself and Collins with a clear lead in multiple polls. The Center for Politics "Crystal Ball" has gone as far as to say Georgia, which previously leaned Democrat, is now a "likely Democratic" win in the midterms.
Collins' roadblocks lie outside policy debates, and are instead centered around a House ethics probe and reporting that the representative's son-in-law is a white supremacist who may have been paid by Collins' trucking company.
Now, at a campaign stop in central Georgia on Thursday, Collins was asked directly about his family member's rhetoric and he said the issue had already been addressed before cutting off the press conference.
Collins visited Monroe County Hospital on Thursday to discuss a string of rural hospital closures in Georgia and the Working Family Tax Cuts, which Collins said provided $220 million for rural hospitals in the state.
Healthcare has been a central issue for both Collins and Ossoff, who have spared over the expansion of Medicaid in Georgia and federal cuts that led to more than a million Georgian's losing their health coverage.