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EXCLUSIVE – Former Ambassador Mike Rogerswho was a candidate for the GOP Senate in Michigan in last year’s elections, launching a second straight republican running for the Senate in the State of Key the Great Lakes.
Rogers, a former Special Agent of the FBI who later performed the post of Chairman of the Intelligence Committee during his term of office in Congress, has announced his candidacy in Senate race 2026. Manage to withdraw the Democratic Senator Gary Peters in a video that is divided by Fox News at the national level.
“As your next senator, I won’t just represent Michigan, I’ll fight for that,” Rogers points out in his video announcement.
Highlighting his long career in the army, the FBI -Ui as elected state and federal MPs, Rogers says that “he runs to serve as your next senator, because the service is what I have always done. Michigan, let’s go to work.”
Former Ambassador Mike Rogers, a candidate for Republican Senate in Michigan, interviewed Fox New Digital, at Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 2, 2024. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
AND In his video, Rogers also points to his support to President Donald Trump, saying “I’ll stand with President Trump, and we will deliver the mandate given to him by the American people …. It will always be America and Michigan for me.”
Rogers won the GOP 2024 nomination in Michigan But closely lost by Ambassador Elisse Slootka, a candidate for Democrats, in the election last November in the race to inherit the longtime Democratic senator of Debbie Stabenow, who withdrew. The Slootka, which has largely surpassed Rogers, played approximately 19,000 votes or a third of the percentage point.
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Senate place in Michigan is one of the three who held Democrats who are National Republican Senator Committee (NRSC) plans to target strongly because it aims to expand the current majority of 53-47 GOP in the Chamber. The other two are in New Hampshire, where longtime Democratic Senarica Jeanne Shaheen is withdrawing and does not run for re -elections in 2026 and Georgia, where GOP considers a vulnerable senator of the first term, Jon Ossoff.
Michigan’s Republican Senate candidate Michigan Mike Rogers speaks on a campaign on Monday, November 4, 2024, in Flint, Michich. Rogers launched a second straight race to the Senate on Monday. (AP Photo/Paul Sancy)
Although Rogers is the first great Republican to enter the Senate race in Michigan, he may not have a ground for himself.
Longtime Republican Ambassador Bill Huizenga told Fox News last week that, as soon as Peters announced earlier this year that he would not ask for a re -choice, “My phone began to ring and did not stop ringing.”
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Huizenga, who was first elected to the house in 2010 and represents the fourth Michigan Congress district, which covers parts of the southwestern part of the state, pointed out that he received “encouragement” to ask for a Senate from “wide people” as well as a donor.
Republican Ambassador Bill Huizeng from Michigan speaks at the campaign rally for now President Donald Trump, November 1, 2024 in Portage, Michigan (Bill Huizenga campaign)
As for his schedule, Huizeng said: “I will still do my assessment here and I have to push myself somehow to raise funds and I have to make sure that I get the support I really need to be able to be able to do this ride.”
An Trump confirmation, It is expected to fly over the GOP stronger than ever, play a significant role if there is a disputed primary Republican Senate in Michigan.
While Trump has yet to venture in the race, Rogers hired a veteran Republican strategist at the end of this year and in 2024. Lacivite remains close to the president and his political team in the White House.
Michigan’s Republican Senate candidate, former Ambassador Mike Rogers of Michigan, speaks together with the then Republican presidential nominated former President Donald Trump during the campaign, led by Trump at the Falk Production Poductions 27, September 2024, Mich. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
In 2022 and in the beginning of 2023, Rogers hoarsely a Republican presidential nomination in 2024, and then had several critical comments of Trump. But Rogers later became a strong supporter of the then president of the Form, and Trump supported Rogers in the Senate race in Michigan 2024 in March last year after inserting the GOP presidential nomination.
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In addition to Rogers and Huizeng, business executive director, conservative commentator and 2022. Republican candidate for gubernator Tudor Dixon She said she was seriously thinking about another ride for the governor or for the 2026 Senate.
And the Republican businessman and executive director for the car store Kevin Rinka, who ran for Governor 2022, is also considered to have another management in the entire country next year.
Mallory McMorrow, a Democratic Senator of the Michigan State, launched a campaign 2026 for the US Senate in the country of Battleground Great Lake earlier this month. (Reuters/Elizabeth France) (Reuters/Elizabeth France)
Earlier this month, State Senator Michigan Mallory McMorrow has launched a campaign for a nomination of democratic Senate.
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Tail. Kristen McDonald Rivet and Haley Stevens are considering running, as well as the Attorney General in Michigan Dana Nessel.
Last month, Peta Buttigieg, a candidate for a Democratic President in 2020 who later performed the post of Minister of Transport in the Administration of former President Joe Biden, excluded the campaign after seriously considering the offer.
