Two Trump-backed candidates lost their respective elections this week, marking significant defeats in Donald Trump's broader effort to install MAGA-friendly surrogates in state governments as well as the U.S. House and Senate.
On Tuesday, Republican former state Rep. Vernon Jones lost out in a runoff to Republican trucking executive Mike Collins to represent Georgia's 10th Congressional District, according to the Associated Press. Collins' victory comes just a week after he earned a rare endorsement from Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who himself has been put on Trump's hit list for failing to sufficiently promote the Big Lie and baseless claims of election fraud.
