LANSING — The “bloodbath” Michigan Republican Senate primary is getting even nastier as Mike Rogers, Peter Meijer, Sandy Pensler, and Justin Amash continue to “clash” and take shots at each other.
Here’s the latest on the “unruly” and “fractured” GOP primary:
- Amash slammed Rogers, Meijer, and Pensler who “aren’t real contenders” and “aren’t really up to the task.”
- Amash called out Rogers’ “weak record” and attacked him for being “not a very strong contender” who will “fall in the polls as this goes on.”
- Amash bashed his opponents saying “the candidates that are currently in the race just don’t cut it.”
- Amash said the quiet part aloud, “I was kind of terrified about the prospects of ending up with one of these people as my senator.”
- Amash whacked Rogers for “changing [his] tune from year to year based on what seems popular,” adding that “no man loved warrantless surveillance more than Mike Rogers.”
- Rogers found humor in Donald Trump’s dangerous suggestion that Russia “could roll right over the NATO countries,” and defended Trump saying it was his “style of being funny.”
- When you think of lawmakers who walked through the revolving door to “multiply [their] net worth,” Mike Rogers comes to mind. Business Insider pointed to Rogers as a prime example of someone who “multipl[ied] his net worth over the course of nine years in the private sector, including by joining a myriad of boards and working on many of the same issues that he did as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.”
- NOTUS highlighted Rogers abandoning Michigan for Florida, noting he “moved into a $1.8 million house in Florida for which he received a $50,000 homestead tax exemption in 2023” and bought a “one-bedroom $295,000 house in Michigan two months before he announced his candidacy.”
- Rogers took aim at Amash, asking “what party is he running for?” and added “I don’t think he has a chance.”
- Amash called Rogers out for supporting the Patriot Act.
See for yourself:
Fox 17: Amash: “Well, it is a crowded field, but most of the contenders aren’t real contenders in my opinion. I think most of them aren’t really up to the task. And even the person who’s lauded as the top contender right now, which would be Mike Rogers, I think is not a very strong contender. And I believe he’s going to fall in the polls if this goes on. He has a very weak record.”
Local Live: Amash: “Well, I’m looking at the Republican primary because the candidates that are currently in the race just don’t cut it. I mean, when you talk about the kind of people Republican voters want to be in Congress to represent them, who will rein in government, who protect people’s individual rights, you just don’t have that in this field. And I was kind of terrified about the prospects of ending up with one of these people as my senator…”
JR Afternoon: Amash: “A lot of these other people, you’ll see other candidates in the race who are just changing their tune from year to year based on what seems popular. Mike Rogers is trying to pretend like he wasn’t the surveillance king throughout his time in Congress. I mean, no man loved warrantless surveillance more than Mike Rogers, and now he’s pretending like, ‘Oh, we got to rein in the FBI.’ You were the one promoting the FBI’s unconstitutional surveillance. So you have a lot of phonies who run for office, and I’m going to stand against these phonies.”
Michigan’s Big Show: Michael Patrick Shiels: “Speaking of talking, Donald Trump, I get people that say, ‘Well, he wants to be a dictator.’ And then he told Russia that they could roll right over the NATO countries… I mean, what do you think? Those were two very sensitive topics to joke about.” … Rogers: “…And I think that’s Donald Trump’s way of bringing attention. I truly don’t believe he meant he wanted Russia to go in. I think he does it, that’s his style of being funny.”
Business Insider: “As for Rogers — now the leading GOP Senate candidate in Michigan — he managed to multiply his net worth over the course of nine years in the private sector, including by joining a myriad of boards and working on many of the same issues that he did as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.”
NOTUS: “In Michigan, Rogers, former congressman for Michigan’s 8th District, is the GOP front-runner. He retired from the House in 2015, moved into a $1.8 million house in Florida for which he received a $50,000 homestead tax exemption in 2023, and then bought a one-bedroom $295,000 house in Michigan two months before he announced his candidacy.”
JR Afternoon: Rogers: “What party is [Amash] running for? … I don’t think he has a chance.”
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