Daily Beast: “The primary is hardly done… [Rogers] has been taking heat from across the GOP spectrum.”
LANSING — The Daily Beast has reported that the Michigan Senate Republican primary is “hardly done” as Mike Rogers takes more “heat from across the GOP spectrum.” That includes “25 of Michigan’s 60 delegates to the Republican National Convention call[ing] on Trump to un-endorse Rogers.”
The story notes that Justin Amash, is putting Rogers’ “feet to the fire—and running against him in the primary,” attacking Rogers for having “the worst record of anyone I served with in Congress” and being a part of the “Deep State.”
Read the Daily Beast’s reporting on the brutal infighting in the GOP primary:
The Daily Beast: Not a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
- When he nabbed a Trump endorsement a month ago, Mike Rogers declared he had all but locked up the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
- “This thing is done,” Rogers said on a podcast shortly…
- The reaction since then, however, suggests the primary is hardly done. The former congressman has been taking heat from across the GOP spectrum…
- Indeed, last month, 25 of Michigan’s 60 delegates to the Republican National Convention called on Trump to un-endorse Rogers…
- It wouldn’t be the first time a state GOP reshaped in Trump’s image has turned on a Trump pick—and it also wouldn’t be the first time Trump has retracted his “complete and total endorsement.”
- …One of the state’s most prominent Never Trumpers is also putting his feet to the fire—and running against him in the primary.
- Former Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI)… said Rogers “might have the worst record of anyone I served with in Congress” in a March 11 tweet.
- At the core of Amash’s case is outrage over Rogers’ tenure as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee—which, ironically, may resonate with a MAGA faction that is deeply suspicious of the “Deep State.”
- All of this infighting is music to the ears of Michigan Democrats, who are gearing up for one of the nation’s most competitive and expensive Senate races.
- “Michigan Republicans’ chaotic, bruising intra-party fight is getting even nastier as Revolving Door Rogers faces attacks on his record of enriching himself at Michiganders’ expense,” Sam Chan, a spokesperson at Michigan Democratic Party told The Daily Beast. “The brutal infighting in the Republican Senate primary will leave them with a damaged nominee who is out-of-step with Michiganders.”
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