Mike Rogers has officially jumped back into the fight for Michigan’s U.S. Senate, launching his campaign in April 2025 to challenge the Democrats for an open seat after Sen. Gary Peters announced he would not seek reelection on January 28, 2025. This is not a roll of the dice — Rogers is running for a seat Democrats have treated like a safe haven while failing Michigan families for years.
Conservative voters remember that Rogers came within a hair of victory in 2024, losing a razor-thin race by roughly 19,000 votes to Democrat Elissa Slotkin — proof that Michigan is winnable when Republicans nominate a fighter who speaks to working Americans. National GOP leaders saw that potential and rallied behind him: former President Trump publicly backed Rogers during the 2024 cycle, signaling that the party’s resources and muscle will be aligned behind the candidate who can actually win.
Rogers isn’t starting this campaign from scratch — his operation reports a multi-million-dollar war chest and national groups are pouring money and infrastructure into Michigan to seize this pickup opportunity. Outside spending commitments and early fundraising have closed the gap that cost Republicans in 2024, and a serious ground game this time could convert last cycle’s near-miss into a decisive victory for workers, families, and small-business owners.
The GOP is trying to avoid another bruising primary that splintered conservative voters last time; prominent potential rivals have stepped aside, and party leaders are consolidating support to present Michigan with a unified conservative choice. That discipline matters — when Republicans get serious, they win, and Rogers’ background in national security and law enforcement gives him a credentials-based case to restore safety, prosperity, and common-sense governance to the state.
This is a change election in the truest sense: Michigan families are tired of rising costs, lawlessness in our cities, and one-party rule that elevates special interests over the hardworking citizens who built this state. If patriots want a Senate that defends American industry, secures our borders, and restores schoolrooms to parents instead of ideologues, rallying behind a proven conservative fighter like Mike Rogers is the clear path forward.
Hardworking Michiganders deserve leaders who put them first, not career politicians who cozy up to the swamp. The 2026 battlefield is being shaped right now — conservatives who care about jobs, safety, and liberty should take note and prepare to turn out in force so Michigan finally gets the representation it needs and the country that honors our values.

