Former U.S. Congressman Mike Rogers is running for U.S. Senate for the second consecutive election cycle and is angling hard for another Trump endorsement to clear the field. Rogers has hired Chris LaCivita, a political consultant who was the co-chair of the Trump campaign last year, as his senior adviser.
LaCivita became widely known after reports indicated that his front groups took $22 million from the Trump campaign throughout 2024, allegations that he is currently disputing in the courts. LaCivita also went on the war path during the campaign against the conservatives responsible for the ‘Project 2025’ think-tank that was widely demonized by Democrats.
Following Trump’s election, LaCivita has resumed his consulting work. One of the projects he is working on is booting Rep. Thomas Massie, the Congressman with the strongest pro-liberty constitutional conservative voting record, from office because he refused to vote in favor of a crippling debt hike.
Rogers has brought LaCivita on board to reinvent himself as a MAGA Republican despite Rogers’ history of supporting unconstitutional NSA Spying and the Patriot Act, being a ‘Never Trumper’ until the moment he started running for U.S. Senate in 2024, becoming a swamp lobbyist after cashing in on his Congressional connections, helping cover up Benghazi scandal to protect defense contractors, and supporting the Jan. 6 probe and inferring pro-Trump patriots were “criminals.”
Through his acquisition of LaCivita’s services, Rogers is showing again that he is adept at knowing how to spend a boatload of establishment money to stack the deck in his favor. It was an open secret that his 2024 U.S. Senate campaign was run out of Michigan Republican Party headquarters during the primary process in what was a blatant conflict of interest.
I have prepared a petition for those who wish to voice their displeasure with the corrupt process and Rogers’ gaming of the system. The petition allows those who fill it out to send an email to President Trump urging him not to support Rogers, stressing Rogers’ poor record and inability to carry Trump’s support during last year’s election.
The case for Mike Rogers seems to center wholly around the big money and his establishment connections. Rogers is the preferred candidate of the big money and the establishment so we are meant to blindly support someone whose record nobody can defend, a candidate who embodies everything that is wrong with the Washington D.C. status quo.
Chanting slogans like “Drain the Swamp!” in one breath while championing individuals like Mike Rogers in the next makes us look like hypocrites and insults the intelligence of the voting public. It betrays the spirit of the MAGA movement, and toward what ends?
Another question that defenders of Rogers cannot answer is: How will Mike Rogers be able to perform better in 2026 without Trump at the top of the ballot driving momentum in his direction?
Rogers ran under optimal conditions in 2024, with the red wave sweeping many Republican lawmakers into power across the country. In 2026, during the midterm elections following a presidential victory, there is typically a correction. Trump will not be on the ballot, and Republicans will be forced to run on their own merits.
What is Mike Rogers going to do to energize voters? Will the voting public find him to be credible? Will they ignore millions of dollars worth of Democrat attack ads accurately portraying Rogers as a lobbyist and a career politician?
These are the questions we must ask ourselves before we genuflect beneath Rogers because the establishment money wants us to do so.
Two candidates rumored to be challenging Mike Rogers for U.S. Senate are former Michigan Governor candidate Tudor Dixon and current State Senator Jon Lindsey. Both would be superior choices to Rogers whose record as a lawmaker and history of anti-constitutional statements make him electoral poison.
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I agree. Did anyone see Roger’s response to Garrett Soldano’s question on the topic of his support for NSA surveillance? Rewriting history. Hard no for me.
The slimbag Rogers career taxpayer parasite puff piece above aside, the entire Trump Republican Party has become a laughable shitshow of grifters (Lutnick), clowns (Navarro A/K/A Ron Vara), and retards.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3324704/cpac-trump-power-third-term-push/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/third-term-trump-neo-nazi-white-nationalist-cpac-shane-trejo/
Ah, the "trusted" political consultant to the rescue.
The republican kakistocracy obviously have very short memory spans.
Did they totally miss the debacle that ensued after Rev. Sewell (I believe that it was him) trying to maintain order at the Republican Convention in Detroit when they tried to pull the Trump Endorsement card with Meshawn Maddock just a few weeks ago???
Remind me again: who did the grassroots elect as Michigan GOP Chair?
I've seen way too many ads proclaiming Rogers to be a supporter of President Trump. EVERY RINO who is worried about their job security for the next four years is, or soon will be, claiming the exact same thing.
It's a shame that we are not seeing their actions matching their claims (i.e. permanent tax cuts/abolishment of the IRS, an actual yearly balanced budget rather than non-stop deficit riddled CR's, perp walks at the DOJ, CIA & every other alphabet agency...shall I go on?).
Don't think it can't be done? Look at what happened with the democrats did in Lansing 2 years ago when they took over.
Actions speak louder than words
If they have a wad of cash burning a hole in their pockets and want to go all in with this fairy tale of him now being all MAGA, then they might as well start running ads telling people just to vote for the democrat, because the grassroots didn't fall for Tudor Dixon, we didn't fall for Meshawn Maddock and we sure as hell won't fall for Mike Rogers!
At this point, any Trump endorsement is the kiss of death no different from Musk trying to buy a seat on the Wisconsin supreme Court.
MAGA is now toxic.
Watch.
If Roger is the guy at the end of the primary, I'll vote for him in the General.
While the whole principled stand thing can be respected, it also blessed us with Whitmer in 2018, and Slotkin in 2024. We know what happened when a power monger is in charge during a crisis, and the result of a former(?) spook deep stater as a Senator is the next fun thing to deal with.
We need to work through all of this now, and if we want to have the best chance to pass permanent changes that restore some semblance of what we once were ... It won't be by giving power back to the lunatic left.
Voting for Rogers in the Primary would go along way to getting him elected in the General Election... That is what is best for Michigan and the USA
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2014/12/11/the-benghazi-report/
Get this out to everyone you can! Hard no on Rogers!