LANSING — Donald Trump’s trip to Michigan today shines a light on the Republicans’ “brutal intraparty battle” with the GOP Senate candidates “bashing one another.”
Trump’s endorsement of Mike Rogers has incited opposition from Republicans across the state. 25 of the 60 Michigan RNC delegates have signed a resolution urging Trump to rescind his endorsement of Rogers, and reporters have pointed out that it could be a “significant liability.”
Here’s what you need to know about Trump adding more fuel to the fire in the “unruly” Senate GOP primary:
- 25 of the 60 Michigan RNC delegates have signed a resolution urging Trump to rescind his endorsement of Rogers, and “1,100 members of a group called Rescue Michigan signed a letter” urging Trump to endorse someone else.
- The endorsement has poured gasoline on the infighting fire, with Justin Amash saying “Trump supporters can’t stand” “total loser” Rogers and it’s “laughable” to think they’d support Rogers. Amash slammed Trump for making a “classically bad choice” endorsing Rogers.
- Rand Paul “ripped” Trump for endorsing Rogers, saying “you have to ask yourself who gives Trump this awful advice?”
- Rogers faced “backlash” after “touting” his “endorsement that raised eyebrows” from former Trump administration official Kash Patel, “who suggested in December that if Trump is reelected, the administration would go after journalists to try to prosecute them ‘criminally or civilly.’”
- Detroit News’ conservative assistant editorial editor Kaitlyn Buss notes that the “division is not likely to soon close,” and “Republicans stand to lose” this race.
- Republicans protested outside of a Rogers fundraiser and urged Trump to “listen” and rescind his endorsement of “Deep State RINO” Rogers.
- Trump ally Roger Stone called “corrupt Deep State” Rogers the “most dangerous” “phony running for office.”
- “Many in Trump’s orbit” think that Rogers would “lose the general election.” One Trump ally even went as far to say that “everyone thinks [Rogers is] the worst endorsement [Trump has] made this cycle.”
Here’s what you need to know about Mike Rogers:
- Rogers has made “hundreds of thousands of dollars in wealth through companies that have partnered with Chinese firms” by using his business relationships “over the last decade as a prominent ex-lawmaker.”
- Rogers “made good on his quest to get rich” after leaving office by spending nearly a decade walking through the “‘revolving door,’ advising companies on issues he dealt with in Congress.”
- Rogers supports banning abortion, co-sponsored four fetal personhood bills that could have had the same effect as the Alabama ruling in restricting access to IVF. If Rogers had lived in Michigan in 2022, he would have voted against Proposal 3.
- Rogers owns a $1.7 million, “4,751-square-foot home in Cape Coral valued at $1.7 million was his official residence until his decision to run for U.S. Senate” and is “registered to vote in Florida.” He does not currently own a house in Michigan.
- Rogers “voted against the passage of the Affordable Care Act,” describing it as a “disastrous law.”
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