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Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins has built a national profile as a combative, Trump-aligned online provocateur — a style that has repeatedly drawn scrutiny over his associations with far-right figures, inflammatory social media posts and accusations of antisemitism, which he has denied.
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Now, one of the starkest examples of extremism in the Georgia congressman’s orbit appears much closer to home: his son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, a pro-White nationalist and social media influencer with a track record of sharing antisemitic material and Nazi imagery in comments across the internet.
Scheer, who is married to Collins’ daughter, Summer, is featured in family photographs on Collins’ campaign website and social media. He attended Collins’ Senate primary election-night victory party and appears to have helped produce promotional work for Collins’ trucking company. Scheer is registered to vote at a Collins-owned property adjacent to the congressman’s large home in Georgia.
On Instagram, Scheer recently shared multiple posts promoting Patriot Front, the White supremacist hate group that descended on Washington, DC, over July 4th weekend. He has amassed more than 1.5 million followers across TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Telegram by posting about fitness, masculinity and Christianity.
On those same platforms, Scheer has promoted White nationalist ideology, spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, called for Muslims to be deported and shared an antisemitic infographic targeting Jews that he said his wife (Collins’ daughter) made.
On a podcast from last November, Scheer warned that White people were being driven toward extinction and said restoring an America populated by people of White European descent would require “clearing our land of other people.”
The posts and comments are the latest example of a far-right figure in Collins’ orbit as he faces off against Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff in a pivotal race.
Collins, who built a national reputation as an online provocateur, has faced repeated criticism for his associations with far-right and extremist figures. In May, he fired a longtime aide who posted from Collins’ campaign account mocking a rival campaign adviser’s wife and her sexual assault claims.
Scheer has espoused hateful rhetoric against Jews and Muslims. Just weeks ago, after a monthslong social media hiatus, Scheer asked his followers on Telegram, which he has linked to on other platforms, to vote on a poll on whether he should make a video on “why Gen-Z doesn’t hate Hitler.” He later deleted the poll, but CNN saved the post.
In a YouTube video posted in November 2025 to his nearly 350,000 subscribers, Scheer invoked the “Jewish Bolsheviks” conspiracy theory, an antisemitic narrative embraced by Nazi Germany that portrayed communism as a Jewish plot and blamed Jews collectively for Soviet atrocities.
“Sixty million Christians that were killed by Jewish Bolsheviks in the early 1900s right before World War II,” Scheer said in the video. “They don’t tell us the history about Germany before World War II. All we’re told is, ‘Germany bad, Hitler evil, don’t ask questions, Holocaust, Holocaust, Holocaust, here’s 50 movies every year about the Holocaust and why it’s so bad.’”
Scheer encouraged viewers to “do some digging” into who writes history textbooks while earlier claiming Jews were responsible for “porn,” “killing JFK,” the 9/11 terror attacks and the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Scheer repeated the unproven claim that Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, and blackmailed politicians into supporting an “Israel first” agenda.
After a commenter on YouTube noted that his post had a note of “anti-Semitism and white nationalism that is disturbing,” Scheer replied, “There’s nothing wrong with White Nationalism.”
Collins’ campaign did not address CNN’s questions regarding Scheer and his comments across social media. In a statement, a spokesperson for Collins said, “Rep. Collins’ lifelong support for Israel is unquestionable and backed by his consistent record in Congress of standing up for Israel and her people.”
Scheer did not respond to CNN’s requests for comment.
In a post last year on Telegram, Scheer shared an infographic claiming Jews control the US government through financial influence, attributing the graphic to his wife.
The infographic argued that Jewish donors, advocacy groups and institutions had captured American politics and were directing US policy on behalf of Israel. One panel claimed that an “ethnically cohesive interest group” had seized control of US foreign policy and concluded: “This is treason.” Scheer encouraged followers to “Save it and Share it everywhere.”
On Telegram in June 2025, Scheer also posted a series of antisemitic infographics blaming Jews for being responsible for “every single aspect” of gun control, abortion, the LBGTQ movement and “pornography and hook up culture.” Two claimed that Jews control the media and the Federal Reserve. The infographics show pictures of prominent Jewish politicians, activists, economists and business owners with the Star of David on their foreheads or by their names.
Close ties
Records suggest Scheer lives on a property owned by Collins and appears to have produced promotional videos for Collins’ trucking company. Scheer has been registered to vote since September 2024 at a house adjacent to Collins’ estate, according to voter and property records.
He also appears to have narrated promotional videos for Collins’ trucking company; in one YouTube post filmed in front of trucks, he said he was making videos for a “client.” Videos reviewed by CNN show Scheer in July and November 2024 discussing a move to a new home in a new state, around the same time Georgia property records indicate the new Collins-owned house was built.
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Collins previously faced criticism in 2024 over alleged antisemitic social media posts, his defense of January 6 rioters who he said deserved pardons and his associations with far-right activists and staffers.
The Republican enters the race as an underdog, even in a state that Donald Trump won in 2024, with traders on prediction market Kalshi giving Collins roughly a 16% chance of victory. Major polls have not been published since Collins won the Republican nomination in mid-June.
Much of that can be attributed to Ossoff’s popularity in the state, but also to a string of controversies that have followed Collins during his years in public office.
In 2024, Collins shared a video of pro-Israel counterprotesters at the University of Mississippi that included a White student making ape-like gestures toward a Black woman. Collins later said the incident was not the “focal point” of the video he shared that may have contained “potentially inappropriate behavior.” The NAACP urged an ethics investigation of Collins over the tweet, though one was never launched.
Collins has also drawn criticism for social media posts invoking political violence.
In February 2024, responding to a photo of a Venezuelan migrant arrested for alleged involvement in assaulting a police officer in New York City, Collins wrote: “Or we could buy him a ticket on Pinochet Air for a free helicopter ride back.”
The remark referenced a long-running far-right meme tied to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose regime killed political opponents by throwing some victims from helicopters during the country’s military dictatorship. The charges against the Venezuelan migrant were later dropped after police said he had been misidentified as being involved in the assault.
The post was temporarily removed from X for violating its rules about violent speech, though it was later reinstated after Collins pleaded to the owner of X, Elon Musk. After the post returned to the platform, it included a note saying that while it violated the platform’s rules, “X has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Post to remain accessible.”
Collins celebrated by posting, “Never delete. Never surrender.”
In another instance, responding to a video about migrants near the southern border in December 2023, Collins wrote, “This is when you switch from 40mm to the 105” — a reference to escalating from a 40mm round to a larger 105mm artillery weapon.
In May, Collins’ campaign made headlines when one of his top aides posted a derisive tweet about an adviser to the PAC of Collins’ then-opponent, Derek Dooley, on the campaign X account. The adviser’s wife is a former NBC News staffer who had previously accused former anchor Matt Lauer of sexual assault, to which the post made a mocking reference.
The Collins aide was fired over the controversy.
Also in May, Slate reported that Collins’ chief of staff, Kip Talley, participated in a group chat with White nationalist figures Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer and discussed efforts to assist far-right activist, Charles C. Johnson, who has made comments questioning the Holocaust, while he was jailed on contempt-related charges. Talley told Slate he acted in a personal capacity after hearing concerns about Johnson’s treatment in custody and said he did not act at Collins’ direction.
Collins has also faced criticism over his own comments.
In 2024, Collins replied to a post from an antisemitic social media account that appeared to reference a Washington Post reporter’s Jewish heritage. “Never was a second thought,” Collins wrote.
After facing backlash, Collins defended the exchange, writing: “I guess pointing out that a Washington Post journo excusing crime because she believes USA is on ‘stolen land’ makes her a garbage human is anti-Semitic? Y’all just see stuff that ain’t there.”
Last year, Collins also dismissed concerns about a leaked Young Republicans group chat that contained racist, antisemitic and pro-Nazi messages.
After Politico reported that members of the chat had praised Adolf Hitler, joked about gas chambers and exchanged racist slurs, Collins responded on social media: “I don’t care about some group chat” and included a photo of Laken Riley, the Georgia nursing student whose murder by an undocumented immigrant became a rallying cry for Republicans in pushing stricter immigration policies.
Son-in-law shared Nazi imagery
Within a YouTube comment section from a video posted in November 2025, Scheer liked one comment in German quoting a 1930s marching song co-opted by the Nazis called “Erika.” In English it translates to, “On the heath, there blooms a little flower.”
Scheer encouraged viewers to check out his Telegram channel. Three days later, he wrote, “The support has been insane on the last video^ We’re going to retake America for Christian White men!”
In one Instagram post from June 2025, Scheer posted a meme of a family cradling a baby with an eagle in the background. The text overlay reads, “I want to make babies Not die for Israel.”
Scheer captioned the Instagram post, “If you haven’t noticed, we all have a common enemy.”
The image was taken from a Nazi propaganda poster from the 1930s that reads, “Die NSDAP sichert die Volksgemeinschaft,” which translates to “The Nazi Party protects the people’s community.”
‘They’re trying to kill us’
In a podcast posted last November, Scheer warned that White people were being driven toward extinction, saying “they’re trying to kill us” and claiming their share of the global population had fallen from 30% in the 1950s to 7%.
He argued that restoring community required “clearing our land of other people” and later pushed for keeping Somalis, Mexicans and Nigerians in their home countries so he could “enjoy my slice of this world with my people.” Scheer also blamed “Israel and Zionist Jews” for policies he said were intended to “undermine the White Christian nature of America.”
“I know there’s people out there right now that are just cursing us at the screen, just completely just hating us,” Scheer said. “And I feel bad for him, man. I pity them because, at the end of the day, if it’s a White European man, he’s my brother, and if he hates me, it’s because he’s misguided. There’s no other answer to it.”
He also said, “I do believe that the more homogenous a culture is, the more it thrives.”
In the same episode, Scheer made disparaging remarks about Black Americans and Indians. “If you look at how many Black people have been on welfare and EBT and food stamps, it’s like, actually they owe us like $2 trillion,” he said, adding that “that whole 40 acres and a mule thing” meant “y’all owe us $2 trillion now.”
Responding to Hindu commenters, Scheer told them to “get your country straight” and contrasted what he called the “magnificent civilization” created by Christians with Indians “covering” themselves “in cow crap.”
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