What to Know About Doug Collins, Trump's Pick to Oversee Veterans Affairs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

33% : Nothing else," Collins said on the House floor in 2019 when representatives were debating before voting to impeach Trump.
26% : Collins helped represent Trump in challenging the results of the 2020 election in Georgia and became the Georgia chair of the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute.
19% : Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp instead decided to appoint Kelly Loeffler, but not before a frantic last-minute push by anti-abortion groups and people close to Trump to undermine Loeffler's appointment.
17% : Collins rose to national notice defending Trump in the Mueller probeCollins acquired a national reputation while defending Trump as the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee during the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into whether Russia improperly influenced Trump's 2016 election victory.
8% : That book, "The Clock and the Calendar," argued that Democrats were impeaching Trump to get revenge for him beating Hillary Clinton in 2016 and to prevent him from being reelected in 2020.
4% : Collins wrote a book about Trump's first impeachment over allegations that he improperly withheld military aid from Ukraine in order to push Ukraine into announcing an investigation into Joe Biden, who went on to beat Trump in 2020.
4% : Trump wanted Collins appointed to the U.S. SenateTrump was displeased when Collins was not appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2019 when incumbent Republican Johnny Isakson stepped down because of health problems.

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