LANSING — You can call the Michigan GOP Senate Showdown many things… “aggressive,” “brutal,” “fractured” – but you can’t say it’s boring. This week’s infighting included websites attacking one another, Republicans calling Rogers a “blatant fraud,” and more.
Here’s the latest on the “unruly” Michigan GOP Senate primary:
- Sandy Pensler and Mike Rogers engaged in website wars, with each redirecting Michiganders visiting mikerogersforsenate.com and electsandypensler.com to attacks on their opponent’s record.
- Roger Stone, a Trump ally, took aim at Rogers for being a “blatant fraud” that “voters need to be leery of.”
- Stone slammed Rogers for “leaving his home state of Michigan in the dust,” making nearly $2 million in the past two years alone, living in a $1.5 million Cape Coral mansion, and only moving back to Michigan “a few months before announcing his U.S. Senate run.”
- Rogers faced even more scrutiny for being out of touch with Michiganders. MSNBC highlighted how Rogers “lived in Michigan, then moved to Florida, then moved back for the campaign,” and Daily Kos pointed out Rogers’ ties to Florida.
- Trump continues to complicate Republicans’ bid to win the Michigan Senate seat. In response to a question if he’d pardon Trump, Rogers said it’s in the “country’s best interest not to go through that nonsense.” He went on to say that Trump’s New York civil fraud case showed “two tiers of justice.”
- Pensler bashed “career politicians” Rogers and Meijer, saying that most of the country’s problems were due to them “being unwilling to take on hard decisions because they’re afraid of losing their jobs.”
See for yourself:
Stone Cold Truth with Roger Stone: Michigan U.S. Senate Candidate Mike Rogers is the Most Dangerous Anti-Trump Phony Running for Office
- Rogers has raked in millions following his departure from Congress, funding a lavish lifestyle, and leaving his home state of Michigan in the dust. Rogers has raked in nearly $2 million from serving on the boards of various tech and cybersecurity firms in the past two years alone, cashing in on his deep state bona fides and amassing assets of $17.5 million as a military-industrial grifter. Rogers lived in a mansion worth $1.5 million in Cape Coral, Florida before relocating and buying a home in the Detroit area only a few months before announcing his U.S. Senate run last year.
- Now that… his coffers are filled with corporate money from the infamous “revolving door” between big business and big government, Rogers is attempting a political comeback.
- Voters need to be leery of this blatant fraud and reject Rogers in the primary election.
MSNBC: How problematic is the Senate GOP’s ‘carpetbagger’ problem?
- In Michigan, Republican Senate hopeful Mike Rogers lived in Michigan, then moved to Florida, then moved back for the campaign.
Daily Kos: Dave McCormick, Sam Brown, Tim Sheehy, Nella Domenici, Mike Rogers, and now Eric Hovde. What do they have in common? Well, they’re all Republican Senate candidates … and they all have deep ties to states other than the ones they’re running in.
Michigan’s Big Show: When asked if he’d pardon Trump, Rogers responded: “…I do believe it’s probably in the country’s best interest not to go through all that nonsense.”
Michigan’s Big Show: When talking about Trump’s New York civil fraud case, Rogers said: “… this notion that there are two tiers of justice in America looks real to me.”
Michigan’s Big Show: Pensler: “Well I think most of the problems that we have in our country, unfortunately, are self-inflicted. And I think they derive principally from career politicians being unwilling to take on hard decisions because they’re afraid of losing their jobs.”
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