LANSING, Mich. — The Republican nominee for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat has been set.
Mike Rogers is the projected winner of the Republican primary, according to Decision Desk HQ.
The Michigan-native has a long history in public office, serving in the state Senate for six years starting in 1995 before a 14 year career in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Rogers, who is backed by former President Trump, says the years he’s since worked in cybersecurity gave hima deeper understanding of the online threats facing Americans today.
Rogers won the Republican nomination over fellow former Congressman Justin Amash and Sherry O’Donnell.
"You know, sometimes a good beating keeps the family together," Rogers said at his election watch party at a bar in Lake Orion, relating an old anecdote to his margin of victory.
When Decision Desk HQ and other sources called the race in his favor, Rogers took to the stage and addressed the crowd of locals and Republican leaders, including GOP Chair Pete Hoekstra.
"We are going to tell factory workers who are worried, we have your back. We are going to tell the police officers, we have your back. We are going to bring America back," he said.
Michigan Democratic Party Chair Lavora Barnes released this statement in response to Rogers's advancement to the November election:
“Mike Rogers has shown that he is only out for himself – he walked through the revolving door to enrich himself at Michiganders’ expense and then abandoned Michigan for a million-dollar mansion in Florida the first chance he got. Rogers wants to enact a dangerous agenda: banning abortion, supporting tax giveaways for big corporations, and jeopardizing Social Security and Medicare – and that’s exactly why Michiganders will reject him and his self-serving politics in November.”
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