Detroit News’ Conservative Assistant Editorial Editor Kaitlyn Buss: “There’s enough frustration in the Republican party that it’s going to cause a problem for the duration of this race until the primary”
LANSING — As Mike Rogers, Peter Meijer, Sandy Pensler, and Justin Amash continue to “battle it out,” Republicans are getting nervous that their infighting is going to be “enough of a bump to set everyone back.”
Meanwhile, Rogers is continuing to put politics ahead of border security. Instead of backing “one of the toughest border and immigration laws in modern history,” Rogers would rather spew conspiracy theories with Trump.
Here’s the latest on this “doozy” of a primary:
- Rogers would rather play partisan games at the expense of America’s safety and security than find real solutions. Rogers refused to back the “most conservative border bill in decades,” instead he spread harmful misinformation and conspiracy theories with Trump.
- Q: What is Rogers consistent about? Hint: it’s not living in Michigan or fighting for Michigan workers. A: Rogers has a “consistent anti-abortion record,” including backing “a federal ban on abortion,” twice co-sponsoring “bills to suspend FDA approval of medication abortion drug,” and voting “against reproductive rights 100% of the time.”
- But wait… there’s more! HuffPost noted that “Rogers co-sponsored four different fetal personhood bills that would completely ban abortion nationwide: in 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2013.”
- Oh just a couple folks, 1,125 to be exact… Rogers slammed the “sophomoric” Republican voters who are “not thinking very well” and “doing more harm than good.” And when Rogers described these voters as a “small band” – as in the 1,100 Rescue Michigan members and 25 RNC delegates from Michigan who urged Trump to rescind his endorsement of Rogers.
- …And he took that personally. Rogers undermined the backlash from over a thousand Republican voters as just concerns from “one opponent’s Senate campaign” and described it as a “desperate” and “rotten thing they threw at the wall” at him.
- According to Detroit News’ conservative assistant editorial editor Kaitlyn Buss, the “Republicans stand to lose” the Michigan Senate race with their “fractured Republican party.”
- Buss said the quiet part out loud about the “division” in the Senate primary, “I don’t know how they’ll ultimately bridge that in Michigan” and “it’s enough of a bump to set everyone back.”
- Rogers’ big dodge: Detroit News reported on Rogers making “hundreds of thousands of dollars in wealth through companies that have partnered with Chinese firms,” and he immediately got defensive and refused to give a straight answer. Rogers attacked the Detroit News for getting “a little sloppy on its thoroughness” and called the article “laughable” and “read like a press release out of the Democrat headquarters.”
- A WJR radio host highlighted the friction in the primary, “almost half of the 60 Republican National Committee delegates from Michigan have challenged the [Trump] endorsement of Mike Rogers, and they’re calling for a different candidate.”
- Did someone say “division in the Republican party?” Buss emphasized that this issue is an “albatross” that Republicans won’t “be able to come together on.”
- Buss went on to say that “there’s enough frustration in the Republican party that it’s going to cause a problem for the duration of this race until the primary” and by then, “they’ll basically be starting over, having emptied all their money.”
- Buss called it like she saw it, bashing Rogers who “doesn’t have the strongest fundraising” and pointed out that Pensler could “bleed [Rogers] dry.”
- When you look up “wealthy carpetbagger” in the dictionary, you can find a photo of Rogers. Vanity Fair spotlighted Rogers who “for all intents and purposes lives in Cape Coral, Florida—in a house five times the price of the Detroit home he bought just last year.”
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