Trump-backed Senate candidate is linked to white nationalist influencer – his son-in-law

US representative Mike Collins delivers remarks on the day Donald Trump was scheduled to speak at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Road to Majority conference in Washington DC on 26 June 2026. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters View image in fullscreen US representative Mike Collins delivers remarks on the day Donald Trump was scheduled to speak at the Faith & Freedom Coalition Road to Majority conference in Washington DC on 26 June 2026. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters Trump-backed Senate candidate is linked to white nationalist influencer – his son-in-law Mike Collins’ son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, has shared antisemitic conspiracies and Nazi imagery online US politics live – latest updates The Republican Senate nominee in Georgia , Mike Collins, who has been plagued by a string of controversies in his time in public office, has close ties with a white nationalist influencer – his son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II – it has transpired. A trucking executive and one-time “Freedom caucus” conservative endorsed by Donald Trump , Collins has been the GOP representative for Georgia’s 10th congressional district since 2023. In that time, the anti-abortion hardliner has drawn scrutiny over his associations with far-right and extremist figures, incendiary social media activity and accusations of antisemitism, which he has denied. He has also denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election and defended January 6 rioters, who he has said deserved pardons . Collins won the Republican nomination in June , but enters the race as an underdog in a state that Trump won in 2024, against rising Democratic star Jon Ossoff in November’s midterm elections. Scheer, who is married to Collins’s daughter Summer, is a white nationalist and social media influencer with a history of sharing antisemitic material and sentiment and Nazi imagery on the internet. Among them are posts from the neofascist, white supremacist hate group Patriot Front, which descended on Washington DC this Fourth of July wearing white masks and brandishing the Confederate flag. According to CNN , Scheer is registered to vote at a Collins-owned property in Georgia, has been featured in Collins’s campaign photos and was at Collins’s victory party after the candidate won the Republican primary in June. On social media, Scheer has over 1.5 million followers across the TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Telegram platforms, where he posts about fitness, Christianity and masculinity. He has promoted white nationalist ideology, shared antisemitic conspiracy theories, called for Muslims to be deported and shared an antisemitic infographic, which he said his wife made. On a podcast in 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”. He later pushed for keeping Somalis, Mexicans and Nigerians in their home countries so he could “enjoy my slice of this world wit