Fox News Rundown Extra: Rep. Doug Collins On Quelling Civil Unrest, Corona Politics And Trump's 2020 Chances

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 19 July 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Recent polls suggest President Donald Trump is not just behind in key battleground states, but also places that are traditionally Republican One of the red states he is struggling in is Georgia. Earlier this week, Georgia Congressman Doug Collins joined host Jessica Rosenthal on the Fox New Rundown to discuss what is happening in the Peach State and his own senate campaign. Rep. Collins, who is close to the President and joined him an event earlier this week, says he is confident the President is doing better than the polls suggest. The Republican also weighed in on several other topics including his state's response to the coronavirus and the weeks of protests and unrest that resulted from the deaths of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks. The conversation was long and we could not include all of it in our original segment. You can hear all of our conversation with Doug Collins on the Fox News Rundown Extra. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	This is the Fox News Rundown Extra.
0:18.0	I'm Jessica Rosenthal.
0:22.0	This week we spoke with Georgia Republican
0:24.4	Congressman Doug Collins after he'd spent some time with the president this week.
0:28.4	In a state, President Trump won by about five points in 2016.
0:32.7	Now polling data has the former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of Trump
0:36.4	four months before the election.
0:38.3	Collins, arguably a leader within the president's base,
0:41.6	doesn't sound too worried about the election, his own bid for the Senate,
0:45.4	or the president's second bid for the White House, or about the virus.
0:49.2	While places like California and Arizona have reclosed some businesses.
0:52.7	Georgia's governor has told local jurisdictions they can't have their own mask mandates.
0:57.4	We also talk to Collins about the Twitter hack, police use of force and immigration.
1:02.8	We often have to cut interviews down for time during the week, but we thought you'd like
1:05.8	to hear the full conversation.
1:08.2	Thanks for listening.
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