LANSING — Multi-millionaire Florida resident Mike Rogers has a starring role in a new report about “several Republican Senate candidates [who] have downplayed rising costs” while defending Trump’s disastrous economic policies.
In a supercut of the most out-of-touch GOP Senate candidates across the country, MS NOW prominently features audio of Rogers dismissing Michiganders’ concerns about skyrocketing gas prices, saying “We’re gonna be fine, we got plenty of oil.”
Watch Mike Rogers’ cameo here and read more below:
MS NOW: ‘Take one less trip to Starbucks’: GOP Senate candidates keep dismissing affordability concerns
- Across key Senate races this cycle, several Republican Senate candidates have downplayed rising costs and defended the president’s economic policies.
- Democrats are already moving to weaponize those comments, arguing they underscore a broader disconnect between GOP candidates and economic anxieties.
- Republicans, for their part, have been eager to align themselves with Trump’s economic message.
- At a campaign stop in March — as the Iran war drove gas prices higher — Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers shrugged off concerns about rising fuel costs.
- “We’re gonna be fine, we got plenty of oil,” he said, according to a clip obtained by Punchbowl News.
- “We’re going to pump our oil right here in America, and we got plenty,” he added.
- Rogers has also repeatedly defended the president’s tariffs, even as economists link those policies with increasing consumer prices.
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