WSJ: Mike Rogers Tries a Michigan GOP Comeback
In case you missed it, Nicholas Tomaino with the Wall Street Journal lays out how four years of disastrous progressive policies are leading the way for Republicans like Mike Rogers to win in November.
Whether it’s Slotkin’s 100% voting record with Biden, her support for the Biden-Harris EV mandates and Chinese EV companies, or her long career of deceiving voters about her record, it’s clear that Michiganders cannot trust Slotkin to tell the truth.
In case you missed it…
Mike Rogers Tries a Michigan GOP Comeback
Nicholas Tomaino
October 11, 2024
Mr. Rogers, 61, is a Livonia native who left Michigan to serve as an Army lieutenant and a Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent, focused on organized crime and corruption in Chicago. He then returned home, entered politics, and was elected to the U.S. House district Ms. Stabenow vacated when she was elected to the Senate in 2000. An erstwhile Democratic colleague described him as “a voice of moderation and consensus building,” and he served in the House until 2015.
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The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC, helped him do so by contributing $22.5 million in television, radio and digital ads to the once-neglected race. That seems to have had an effect: The RealClearPolitics polling average as of Friday had Ms. Slotkin up by 1.9 points. A Quinnipiac survey released Wednesday has the contest tied at 48%.
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“They have so screwed up our auto companies,” Mr. Rogers says in an interview: “2,400 layoffs at Stellantis, 1,000 at General Motors, that all came because the government decided they were going to tell car companies what to produce.” He’s referring to Environmental Protection Agency rules that require battery-powered and plug-in hybrid vehicles to compose a larger share of auto maker sales. By 2032 no more than 29% of new cars can be gasoline-powered.
EVs take less manpower and parts than old-fashioned cars to produce, which will mean a smaller workforce. “I’m for EVs coming into the market organically,” says Chris Vitale, 52, a United Auto Workers member who works for Stellantis. “But this feels like the 1970s repeating itself. This time the auto industry won’t survive.” The damage extends beyond Detroit. Auto suppliers exist throughout the state, meaning almost everyone knows someone affected by changes in the industry.
In a new ad, Ms. Slotkin distances herself from the rule: “No one should tell us what to buy, and no one is going to mandate anything.” But Mr. Rogers notes that last month she voted against a Congressional Review Act resolution to repeal the agency’s emissions standards. “The only reason they did that,” Mr. Rogers says of the Slotkin campaign’s ad, “is because they don’t think we have enough money to come back and say, ‘That’s wrong.’ ”
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The trouble is that a claim of moderation is most effective when it’s true. Ms. Slotkin emphasizes looking at “what people do, not what they say,” but she has voted with the Biden administration 100% of the time, according to ABC News’s 538. (Ms. Slotkin didn’t respond to my requests for an interview.)
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City Council President Michael Sareini of Dearborn, an Arab-majority city of 107,000, says in an interview that he “can see many, many, a high percentage, a majority of the constituents in the city of Dearborn or even, the greater Southeast area, that will not vote for Harris.” Although he is a Democrat, Mr. Sareini adds that “there’s no way” he could vote for Ms. Harris or Ms. Slotkin, notwithstanding their calls for a cease-fire. The congresswoman has nevertheless been “lying low key” on the issue, he clarifies, and may well take on less damage as a result.
All these votes make a difference in a state Mr. Trump carried by only 10,704 votes in 2016. Michigan had no Senate race that year, but in every state that did, the result matched the presidential outcome. If this is another razor-thin contest, it won’t be the first for Mr. Rogers. When he succeeded Rep. Stabenow in 2000, he won by 111 votes.
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