Georgia congressman Mike Collins wants to be a U.S. senator. He also wants us to believe he has nothing to do with the extremists who keep showing up in his life. That story got a lot harder to sell this week.

On July 16, 2026, CNN reported that one of the most extreme figures in Collins' orbit isn't a staffer or a random online friend. It's his own son-in-law — David Alan Scheer II, who is married to Collins' daughter, Summer. Scheer is a self-described "pro-White nationalist" social media influencer with more than 1.5 million followers. And he uses that megaphone to spread antisemitic conspiracy theories and Nazi imagery.

This isn't a distant relative

Collins can't wave this off as some in-law he barely knows.

• Scheer is featured in family photos on Collins' own campaign website and social media, according to CNN.
• He attended Collins' Senate primary victory party in June.
• He appears to have helped make promotional videos for Collins' trucking company.
• He's been registered to vote since September 2024 at a house owned by Collins, right next to the congressman's estate.

In other words, this is family. Close family. Living on Collins' property, celebrating Collins' wins, doing work for Collins' business.

What the son-in-law actually posts

The content is not subtle. CNN documented a long, ugly trail:

• Scheer shared Instagram posts promoting Patriot Front, the white supremacist hate group that marched through Washington, D.C., over July 4th weekend.
• In a November 2025 YouTube video to his roughly 350,000 subscribers, he pushed the "Jewish Bolsheviks" conspiracy theory — a smear that Nazi Germany used to blame Jews for communism. "Sixty million Christians that were killed by Jewish Bolsheviks," he claimed, then mocked people for talking about the Holocaust.
• When a viewer said his post had "a note of anti-Semitism and white nationalism that is disturbing," Scheer replied: "There's nothing wrong with White Nationalism."
• On Telegram, he ran a poll asking followers whether he should make a video on "why Gen-Z doesn't hate Hitler." He deleted it, but CNN saved it.
• He posted a meme reading "I want to make babies Not die for Israel" — an image lifted straight from a 1930s Nazi propaganda poster — and captioned it, "we all have a common enemy."
• He shared antisemitic graphics claiming Jews control the government, the media, and the Federal Reserve, with the Star of David drawn on politicians' foreheads. One, he said, was made by his wife — Collins' daughter.

On a podcast last November, Scheer said white people were being driven toward extinction and that saving them would require "clearing our land of other people." He talked about keeping Somalis, Mexicans, and Nigerians out of the country, and blamed "Israel and Zionist Jews" for policies he said were meant to "undermine the White Christian nature of America."

That's the man in the family photos on Mike Collins' campaign site.

The one thing Collins wanted to say

Here's the tell. CNN asked Collins' campaign about Scheer and all of these posts. The campaign would not answer the questions. Instead, a spokesperson issued this line: "Rep. Collins' lifelong support for Israel is unquestionable and backed by his consistent record in Congress of standing up for Israel and her people."

Read that again. Asked whether he condemns a family member who calls Jews a "common enemy," shares Nazi propaganda, and jokes about why kids should stop hating Hitler, Collins' team changed the subject to a press release about Israel. No condemnation. No distancing. Not even a direct answer.

You don't dodge a question like that unless the honest answer is one you'd rather not give.

A pattern, not an accident

If this were a one-time thing, maybe. But extremists keep turning up around Mike Collins, and he keeps shrugging.

• His chief of staff, Kip Talley, was reported to have joined a group chat with white nationalist figures Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer.
• In May 2025, Collins fired a top aide who used the campaign account to mock a rival adviser's wife over her sexual assault claims — only after it blew up publicly.
• When a leaked Young Republicans group chat surfaced with members praising Hitler and joking about gas chambers, Collins' response was: "I don't care about some group chat."
• In 2024, Collins replied "Never was a second thought" to an antisemitic post attacking a Washington Post reporter for being Jewish.
• He once told police to give a migrant "a ticket on Pinochet Air for a free helicopter ride back" — a reference to a dictatorship throwing people to their deaths. The man he targeted was later cleared — he'd been misidentified and had done nothing.

Who this is really about — Georgia

It would be easy to treat this as an internet freak show, but there are real stakes for Georgia. Collins is running against Senator Jon Ossoff for a seat that helps decide who controls the U.S. Senate.

Georgia families are worried about grocery bills, health care, and jobs. What they keep getting from Mike Collins instead is a steady drip of white nationalist ties, fired aides, and now a son-in-law who posts Nazi propaganda to more than a million people — while Collins refuses to say a single word against it.

A senator's judgment shows in the people he surrounds himself with, and the lines he's willing to draw. Asked point-blank to draw one here, Mike Collins looked away.

Source

Based on reporting by CNN's KFile: "GOP Senate candidate has close ties to White nationalist influencer, his son-in-law" (July 16, 2026). Lead photo: Jessica McGowan/Getty Images.