Trump Allies’ Battle Over Senate Seat Prompts Republican Jitters
- Loeffler, Collins duel could rage through November election
- Collins rejected Trump effort to lure him out of the race
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President Donald Trump so far hasn’t been able to head off a drawn-out Republican brawl for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia that pits two candidates he’s praised against each other and triggered jitters within the party about potentially losing the seat in November.
The conflict’s been brewing since Georgia’s GOP Governor Brian Kemp chose businesswoman Kelly Loeffler in December to temporarily fill an open Senate seat, despite lobbying from the president to pick four-term GOP Representative Doug Collins, who’s now waging a primary fight.