If the former president had “passed the torch” and allowed a competitive Democratic primary in 2024, she said in a new interview, the winner “would have beaten Donald Trump.”
Hillary Clinton and former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. have long maintained a relationship that is warm in public but intensely competitive and even resentful in private.
Representative Barry Moore, an early backer of the president during his first campaign, faces Jared Hudson, a former Navy SEAL tapping into the excitement for outsiders.
Mr. Trump backed Mr. Collins over Derek Dooley, a former football coach supported by Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican whose relationship with the president is strained.