Former FBI special agent Mike Rogers has nailed down the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan after running completely unopposed in the state’s GOP primary. Rogers secured the nomination after the polls closed due to not having a challenger in what many reports are suggesting will be one of the most competitive U.S. Senate races in the November midterms.
The seat in question is open after Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) announced that he would not be seeking a third term in office, which provides the Republican Party one of its best chances at expanding its majority in the Senate. This will be his second straight Senate run after losing the race in 2024. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, beat Rogers by close to 19,000 votes, despite Trump taking Michigan during the presidential race.
The narrow defeat, which was only about a third of a percentage point, made it clear that the strongest statewide candidate for the GOP is Rogers. This convinced national Republicans to stand behind Rogers making another bid for the Senate after Peters announced his upcoming departure. In May, Rogers sat down with Breitbart News where he stated that Democrats would ultimately do to Michigan what New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has done to the Big Apple.
“They’ve all got huge problems here,” he went on to say, adding that some candidates are “very interested in owning grocery stores and owning every bit of your health care.” According to Breitbart, he then said, “They want to Mamdani Michigan, according to their own words, some of the delegates’ conversations—that’s the direction they want to go.”
Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization that recently put out a controversial update to their party platform that included a call for the dismantling of the Supreme Court and the removal of the office of president. Three other members of the DSA won primaries in New York City against incumbent Democrats.
Rogers served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2015 and chaired the House Intelligence Committee. The former FBI special agent stated that he expects the next 90 days to be a “sprint” with a lot of national attention on the race and massive campaign spending. “We know we’re in it. It’s going to be tight. There’s going to be eight gazillion dollars flowing into this state,” Rogers said.
Pete Hoekstra, Michigan Republican Party Chairman, stated that the wrap-up of the primary season resets the race to focus on the general election. “We’re going to help Mike, we’re going to help Donald Trump get their messages out,” he told the media. “Obviously, when Donald Trump wins Michigan, that’s going to help our Senate candidate.”
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In a post about Rogers’ victory on Facebook, one user commented, “Let us pray the good Lord delivers us from the Islamic socialist liberals that are being enabled by these anti-American socialist liberals.” It’s worth noting this comment references the fact that Michigan has an extremely large Muslim population, with almost the entire city council of Dearborn being comprised of Islamic members.
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