All posts tagged "Michigan"

Facing the possibility of a midterm blowout, struggling Republican candidates are increasingly putting Wall Street and corporate America in their crosshairs, betting a populist pivot will resonate better with anxious voters, according to Politico.

Wall Street and the business sector have long been the GOP's "most reliable allies," but with President Donald Trump's approval ratings dragging the party down, candidates are searching for a new message — and turning Wall Street into what Politico describes as a "punching bag."

In central Arkansas, House Financial Services Chair French Hill is airing ads touting his efforts to "keep Wall Street from buying up our neighborhoods." In Michigan, GOP Senate hopeful Mike Rogers is vowing to "take on Big pharma" companies that "are ripping American families off." And in northeast Iowa, an ad boosting Republican House candidate Joe Mitchell declares he "will be the only Republican refusing corporate PAC money" in Washington....

As Republican Mike Rogers makes his case to voters in Michigan’s high-stakes U.S. Senate race against Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, he’s relied on his record as a federal law enforcement agent, his national intelligence expertise and his image as an every-day working man turned lawmaker.

But one claim he’s made on the campaign doesn’t appear to hold water for the United Auto Workers — his insistence that he worked in an automotive factory during his stint at Adrian College between 1981 and 1982. The UAW formally endorsed El-Sayed in June.

In advertisements, campaign interviews and in messaging to voters, Rogers claimed several times that he either worked in a factory, an automotive shop or an assembly line where he built Chrysler LeBarons....

A local Republican official working on Mike Rogers' Michigan Senate campaign publicly sounded the alarm this week over collapsing GOP enthusiasm on the ground.

Jackson Karki, a Northern Michigan University freshman who chairs at least four counties for Rogers' Senate bid, vented from his anonymous X account, "Red Lion Politics," confirmed by a source familiar with his identity.

"The vibes on the ground are the worst I've seen in my life. No one wants to promote candidates, no one wants to knock doors, no one wants to do (expletive). Attendance for any right wing event is at all time lows anywhere I go," Karki wrote. "And as someone that has knock doors the energy of the people answering the doors is terrible as well."...

The Detroit News endorsed Michigan's Republican Senate candidate this week, and its readers answered with a torrent of mockery and disbelief.

In an editorial, the conservative-leaning paper's editorial board threw its weight behind former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), who has pushed false claims about the 2024 election in Michigan, per reporting by Democracy Docket. The board favored him over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and called Rogers the ideal choice for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Gary Peters in the November 3 midterms.

"Mike Rogers is the prototype of a United States Senator," the board wrote, praising his experience, "clear thinking" and temperament while dismissing El-Sayed as a candidate with "little to recommend him" for the job....

Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers falsely claimed he saw Osama bin Laden's dead body "with my own eyes," according to reports.

Rogers is the GOP nominee for the open Senate seat in Michigan, where he's running a campaign against progressive Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed. In a fundraising email, Rogers claimed, "I saw the dead body of Osama bin Laden with my own eyes, knowing that together, we had delivered justice for America."

In the same fundraising email, Rogers noted that he "served as a U.S. Army officer and an FBI special agent," and "dedicated my life to keeping our families safe - working in the shadows, hunting down terrorists, standing on the frontlines of our national security."...

A Republican Senate nominee has quietly urged one of the nation's most powerful pro-Israel lobbying groups to stay out of his race.

Michigan's GOP nominee for the Senate, Mike Rogers, reportedly met with AIPAC's chair in Los Angeles last week, and a day later, the organization pulled an ad it had already produced attacking his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, according to reporting by Axios.

Axios reported that Rogers' campaign asked AIPAC not to advertise on his behalf. The request has fractured his relationship with AIPAC and laid bare how radioactive the group has become even among the Republicans it wants to help, according to Axios....