Mike Rogers embraces Trump at rally in Port Huron | REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

LANSING — During his speech in Port Huron on Sunday, Donald Trump admitted that Michiganders are “taking a hit” from his cost-raising policies and declared that skyrocketing gas prices are a “small price to pay” for working families. On stage just minutes later, Mike Rogers embraced Trump and his agenda of skyrocketing costs and rampant corruption. 

Earlier in the day, Rogers joined Kristen Welker for a “disastrous” interview on Meet The Press, where she asked “Is a vote for you a vote for the Trump agenda?” In what’s now been described by The Bulwark as a “masterclass in political desperation,” Rogers tried to wriggle out of the question by pretending to have earpiece trouble, stammering: “Um, I’m apologizing. I’m having some difficulty in my earpiece. But is a vote for you…? I’m not sure.”

Though he refused to admit it in the interview, Rogers has already been caught saying he only entered the Senate race because Trump told him to, has pledged to “giv[e] President Trump another reliable vote to get his agenda across the finish line,” and said “We need leaders in the Senate who will fight for President Trump’s agenda — not undermine it. That’s why I’m running.”

“By embracing Donald Trump on stage, Mike Rogers made clear, once again, that a vote for him is a vote for Trump’s agenda of skyrocketing costs and rampant corruption,” said Michigan Democratic Party spokesperson Joey Hannum. “Rogers only got into this race to please Trump and has pledged to rubber stamp his toxic agenda, even when it hurts Michigan. Michiganders don’t want a Trump sycophant representing them in the Senate, and in eight days, they’ll send a clear message by rejecting the Rogers-Trump agenda at the ballot box.”

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