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Exclusive . Former representative Mike RogersThe GOP Senate nominee in Michigan in the last year’s election, launches the second national run to the Senate in the decisive state Battleground.
Rogers, a former special FBI agent who later held the post of chairman of the House of Representatives Committee during his stay in Congress, announced his candidacy for Senate race 2026 To succeed the retired Democratic Senator Harry Peters into a video that shared at the national level with Fox News.
“As your next senator, I will not just represent Michigan, I will fight for it,” Rogers emphasize in my video.
Having nominated his long career in the army, the FBI, and as the elected state and the federal lawmaker, Rogers says “works to serve your next senators because I always did the service. Michigan, let’s work.”
Former reporter Mike Rogers, a candidate for the Republican Senate in Michigan, interviewed by Fox New Digital, in Grand -Repids, Michigan, April 2, 2024. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
And In your video, Rogers are also the focus of his support to President Donald Trump, saying: “I will stand with President Trump, and we will fulfill the mandate that the American people are … For me it will always be America and Michigan first.”
Rogers won the Senate GOP 2024 In Michigan But the narrowly lost to the representative of Ellice Slotkin, the Democrats nominee, in the November elections in the race for the success of the long -standing Democratic Senator Debi Stabenov, who retired. Slotkin, who greatly opened Rogers, overlooked it about 19,000 votes, or a third of the percentage.
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Senate Place in Michigan is one of the three Democrats that National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) plans to focus strongly because it is aimed at expanding the current 53-47 GoP in the ward. The other two are in New Hampshire, where long-time Senator-Democratic Senator Zhanna Shakhin goes to retirement rather than running on the re-election in 2026, and Georgia, where GOP considers first-term Senator John Osof vulnerable.
Senate Michigan’s nominee Micharum Rogers appears at the company event on Monday, November 4, 2024, in Flint, Michigan, on Monday the second run to the Senate. (AP Photo/Paul SANCY)
While Rogers is the first major Republican to enter the Senate race in Michigan, he may not have an area for himself.
Last week, long -time Republican Bill Huizena told Fox News that as soon as Peters announced earlier this year, he would not seek re -election, “my phone started calling and he did not stop calling.”
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Huizenga, which was first elected to the House in 2010 and represents the 4th district of Congress Michigan, which covers parts of the south -western part of the state, stressed that he receives “encouragement” to look for the Senate from “grassroots” as well as donors.
Republican representative Bill Huiseng from Michigan speaks at the campaign that has already participated in President Donald Trump, on November 1, 2024 in Porting, Michigan (Bill Huiseng’s company)
As for his schedule, Huiseng said: “I will still make my assessment here, and I need to stick at the fundraising and I need to make sure that I can get the support I really need to have such a mileage.”
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As also The approval of Trump, It is expected that Michigan will play an important role when in Michigan, swaying, swaying on GOP.
And although Trump has not yet weighed the race, Rogers earned the veterans republican strategist earlier this year and Trump’s 2024 Communications head Chris Latsivita as a senior adviser. Latsivita remains next to the president and his political team in the White House.
Senate Michigan’s nominee, former representative Mike Rogers from Michigan, speaks together with the then republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a company holding Trump at Falk Productions on September 27, 2024 in Walker, Mich. (Scott Olsan/Getti Image)
In 2022, Rogers and the beginning of 2023 thought in 2024 the republican presidential nomination, and at the time had several critical comments from Trump. Later, Rogers became a strong supporter of the president at that time, and Trump supported Rogers in the Senate Michigan race in 2024 in March last year after receiving the GOP president.
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In addition to Rogers and Huizenga, Executive Business, Conservative Comment and 2022 Republican Governor Tador Dixon She said that in 2026 he seriously thought about another run for the governor or in the Senate.
Both the Republican business and executive director of the car dealer Kevin Rinkke, who ran for the governor in 2022, is also considered to be considering another state run next year.
Mallora Mc -Khorost, Senator Michigan Michigan, launched a company in 2026 for the US Senate in the Great Battleground Lakes earlier this month. (Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz) (Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz)
Earlier this month, Michigan Macharou, Senator of the state, launched a campaign for the nomination of a democratic senate.
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Rap. Kristen McDonald Riavet and Haley Stevens consider the possibility of running, as did Michigan Dana Nesel Prosecutor General.
Last month, Pete Butigig, a candidate for the Democratic Presidents of the 2020, who later held the post of transport secretary in the administration of former President Joe Biden, excluded the campaign after a serious consideration of the application.
