LANSING — This weekend, Donald Trump is traveling to Michigan to prop up Mike Rogers—a candidate who only entered the race because Trump told him to and has spent his entire campaign backing Trump’s failed economic agenda, defending his record of corruption, and pledging to be his rubber stamp in the Senate instead of fighting for Michigan families.

Mike Rogers has put Trump ahead of Michigan throughout his entire campaign — just take a look at the receipts:

Rogers admitted he only ran for Senate race again because Trump asked him to.

• Rogers admitted he entered the race only because Trump personally called and asked him to run, saying “When the President called and said, ‘Mike, I need you to do this. I need you in the Senate and here’s the only thing I’m going to ask you, win.’ I said, ‘Mr. President, we’re all in. We’re going to do this.’“

• Rogers said “One of the reasons my wife and I not only did it once, by the way, which is nuts, we decided to do it twice… When the President called and said, ‘Hey, I need you to do this again.’ You know, when the President calls and asks you anything, you got to stop for a second.”

Rogers has repeatedly pledged to rubber stamp Trump’s agenda if he was in the Senate.

• Rogers admitted he is running for Senate to support Trump’s cost-raising agenda, saying “We need leaders in the Senate who will fight for President Trump’s agenda — not undermine it. That’s why I’m running.”

Rogers has run his campaign as a Trump sycophant and defended Trump’s disastrous record of rising costs and corruption at every turn. 

• Rogers vowed to “stand with Trump,” launching his campaign by stating “Trump needs strong allies in the Senate to help him deliver on [his] mandate.”

• Rogers repeatedly praised Trump’s handling of the economy as costs skyrocketed, saying Trump was “fighting to make life more affordable for the American people,” “delivering for working families,” and “prov[ing] the ‘experts’ wrong” on an economy he described as “strong,” “growing,” “booming,” “back on track,” and “pretty optimistic.”

• Rogers defended Trump’s threat to block the Gordie Howe Bridge from opening as “the right thing to do,” despite the harm it would inflict on Michigan’s economy, benefiting only Trump and Rogers’ billionaire Moroun family donors.

• When asked about the $1.7 billion slush fund for Trump’s political cronies, Rogers dismissed it: “I’m not talking about any of that stuff. I don’t care.”

Rogers has supported all of Trump’s cost-raising policies from the very start and repeatedly mocked Michiganders’ concerns as prices soared. 

• Rogers claimed Michiganders are “nuts” and have “Trump derangement” if they blame his and Trump’s agenda for driving up costs.

• Rogers called Trump’s Iran war a “win-win-win,” said there “shouldn’t be a date” to end it, and supported “giving the president authority to continue” the war indefinitely. Even as the war caused Michigan gas prices to skyrocket, Rogers brushed off concerns, saying “We’re gonna be fine, we got plenty of oil.”

• Rogers called Trump’s reckless tariffs “masterful,” an “absolute win,” and said “we should all celebrate” them. While Trump’s tariffs spiked costs and destroyed manufacturing jobs, Rogers told Michiganders “the shoe is going to pinch every once in a while” and mocked concerns over rising grocery prices: “Oh my gosh, coffee went up. You know, horror!”

• Rogers backed Trump’s trade war with Canada from the start, calling the trade war “necessary” because “the Canadians have not been good partners,” even as it threatens to “hit Michigan manufacturing” and spike costs even higher. 

• Rogers supported Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” calling it “a monumental victory,” even though it cut $1 trillion from Medicaid to give multimillionaires like himself tax handouts. As the law threatens to kick 260,000 Michiganders off of Medicaid, Rogers “repeated the widely debunked lie” that eligible Michiganders won’t lose coverage.

Rogers has embraced Trump’s election lies, falsely claimed his last Senate race was stolen, and threatened to intimidate Detroit voters at the polls. 

• Rogers falsely claimed his last Senate race was stolen, relying on an “evidence-free” allegation about “a single van carrying ballots in Detroit,” a claim that “Trump has amplified and that echoed accusations made by election deniers in 2020.”

• Rogers recently doubled down on these false claims, with his campaign stating there are still “lingering questions and concerns about the last election.”

• Rogers was caught saying he wants off-duty police officers to intimidate Detroit voters at the polls this November.

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