As Republicans aim to win back the Senate majority in this autumn’s elections, they’re eyeing Michigan, where longtime Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow isn’t seeking re-election this year.
The state is also a key presidential election battleground state that former President Trump narrowly carried in 2016 and President Biden won by a razor-thin margin four years later.
Trump and his new running-mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, are coming to Michigan on Saturday, to hold their first rally since Thursday’s conclusion of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump applauds as Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio gestures on Day 2 of the Republican National Convention, at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin., July 16, 2024. (REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)
“Michigan is going to be critically important,” former Rep. Mike Rogers, the front-runner for the GOP Senate nomination, emphasized in a Fox News Digital interview.
Rogers, a one-time FBI special agent who later served as chair of the House Intelligence Committee during his tenure in Congress, will be at the rally on Saturday. He argued that “all of the coalitions of the Democrats are falling apart. Why. Because they haven’t delivered.”
And he said that having Trump back in Michigan – for the third time since April – gives him and other Republicans down-ballot a boost by telling voters that “help is on the way. We’ve got your back. Here are the policies that are going…
