LANSING — Does anyone have any bandages? Asking for the “fractured” Republican Senate primary. Mike Rogers is losing his cool as he dodges questions about his ties to China and faces attacks from the 1,100 Rescue Michigan members and 25 RNC delegates from Michigan who are urging Trump to rescind his endorsement of Rogers, calling them “sophomoric” and suggesting they are “not thinking very well.” More people are raising red flags about the primary as they’re unsure how Republicans will be able to “bridge” all of the “division.”
Here’s the latest on the “fractured” GOP Senate primary full of “division:”
- Detroit News’ conservative assistant editorial editor Kaitlyn Buss pointed out that with the “fractured Republican party,” the “Republicans stand to lose” the Michigan Senate race.
- Buss warned of the “division” in the Senate primary, even among the Trump base. She was brutally honest, saying “I don’t know how they’ll ultimately bridge that in Michigan” and went on to say “it’s enough of a bump to set everyone back.”
- Rogers attacked the 1,100 Rescue Michigan members and 25 RNC delegates from Michigan who urged Trump to rescind his endorsement of Rogers, calling them “a small band of folks” who are “sophomoric,” “not thinking very well” and “doing more harm than good.”
- When Rogers was asked about the Detroit News report on him making “hundreds of thousands of dollars in wealth through companies that have partnered with Chinese firms,” he immediately got defensive and refused to give a straight answer. Rogers bashed the Detroit News for getting “a little sloppy on its thoroughness” and called the article “laughable” and “read like a press release out of the Democrat headquarters.”
- A WJR radio host shined a light on the division in the GOP primary, as “almost half of the 60 Republican National Committee delegates from Michigan have challenged the [Trump] endorsement of Mike Rogers, and they’re calling for a different candidate.”
- Buss raised a red flag on the “division in the Republican party” that is an “albatross” they will not “be able to come together on.”
- Buss emphasized that “there’s enough frustration in the Republican party that it’s going to cause a problem for the duration of this race until the primary” and by then, “they’ll basically be starting over, having emptied all their money.”
- Buss slammed Rogers who “doesn’t have the strongest fundraising” and emphasized that Pensler could “bleed [Rogers] dry.”
- Rogers undermined the backlash from over a thousand Republican voters as just concerns from “one opponent’s Senate campaign” and described it as a “rotten thing they threw at the wall” at him.
- HuffPost reported on Rogers’ extensive record to ban abortion, noting that “Rogers co-sponsored four different fetal personhood bills that would completely ban abortion nationwide: in 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2013.”
- Vanity Fair highlighted how Rogers is a “wealthy carpetbagger” “who for all intents and purposes lives in Cape Coral, Florida—in a house five times the price of the Detroit home he bought just last year.”
- Trump’s visit to Michigan shined a spotlight on Rogers deciding to put scoring political points ahead of standing up for Michiganders. Rogers claimed that the bipartisan border bill “didn’t correct any of the problems.” In reality, it was “one of the toughest border and immigration laws in modern history.”
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