LANSING — Following recent reporting about how multi-millionaire Mike Rogers’ newly-announced campaign outreach team includes members who “complained about women in politics” and defended a group chat “filled with praise for Hitler, gas chamber jokes, racial slurs, and rape comments,” a reminder that Rogers has stacked his campaign with extremists:
- Mike Rogers’ super PAC is bankrolled by an “ardent Christian nationalist” with ties to far-right antisemites: Rogers’ super PAC received $5 million from Texas oil billionaire Tim Dunn, who said “only Christians should hold leadership positions” and whose political network includes “white supremacists and antisemites” like Nick Fuentes.
- Mike Rogers has refused to speak out after one of his senior campaign leaders admitted to dismissing victims’ allegations of childhood sexual abuse: Pastor Tim Cross, a senior leader on Rogers’ faith coalition team, has a “connection to a Midland church where three elders have been convicted of sex crimes involving children” and recently admitted he “did not believe the victims” when they came forward.
- Mike Rogers has embraced baseless election denialism: Rogers was caught at campaign events falsely claiming that “a single van carrying ballots in Detroit ‘swung’ his 2024 race” and has since “surround[ed] himself with election deniers” who “repeatedly questioned the results of the 2020 election” and have received federal pardons from Trump for their alleged roles in the “false electors” scheme to overturn Michigan’s 2020 electoral votes.
- Mike Rogers’ campaign has “downplayed the extreme positions” of its faith coalition leadership team, who have “openly opposed gay marriage and LGBTQ+ rights,” supported forced conversion therapy on minors, called LGBTQ+ people an “abomination,” and described LGBTQ+ rights as a “godless, demonic, satanic and wicked agenda of the devil.”
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