The Latest: Trump pick Mike Collins wins GOP nomination for Georgia Senate

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President Donald Trump ‘s preferred candidates were doing well in Tuesday’s primaries, securing the Republican nominations for U.S. Senate in both Georgia and Oklahoma.

Trump has been at the center of this year’s midterm campaigns, and his influence was being tested in different ways Tuesday as four states and the District of Columbia held primaries.

Among Democrats, the primaries hinge on longstanding divides between progressives and moderates as the party tries to chart the best path forward to November.

Here’s the latest:

Collins says the mission is to defeat Ossoff

“Y’all know what the mission? It’s to put a Republican in that seat and to get rid of that Jon Ossoff,” Collins told supporters after winning the Georgia Republican Senate runoff.

“We can put forward an agenda that puts Georgians first. One that builds on a vision where the forgotten man is forgotten no more,” he said.

“It stands in stark contrast to what Jon Ossoff has done,” Collins said, calling the Democrat “the deciding vote for Joe Biden’s massive spending bill.”