Shock Upset: How Trump’s Endorsement Toppled Ex-Tennessee Coach Derek Dooley’s Senate Dreams
Trump endorsed Collins instead of Dooley just two days before the runoff election June 16.
“I don’t know Derek Dooley, and neither does anyone else, but he seems like a nice person,” Trump said in a post June 14 on Truth Social. “Unfortunately, he has lived outside of Georgia for most of his life, didn’t vote in 2020 or 2016, and said that I lost Georgia in 2020 when, in actuality, the facts have now proven that I won by a lot!”
Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election against Trump before Trump won the White House back in 2024. Dooley privately acknowledged that in an audio recording obtained by the Washington Examiner.
But such an admission can hurt a Republican who needs Trump’s endorsement to help put him over the edge in a Republican primary election, especially if that candidate has no political experience and hadn’t even voted in an election in many years, as Dooley did not.
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