BAD NEWS FOR ROGERS
- Downtown Newsmagazine
- Oct 27
- 1 min read
Considerable energy was expended behind the scenes locally and in D.C. earlier this year to make sure that Mike Rogers (R-White Lake) had no primary opposition in the U.S. Senate race next year. That effort included basically strong-arming west Michigan Republican congressman Bill Huizenga not to enter the race, and potential donors not to lend any support, to the disappointment of some party members. Now comes Genevieve Peters Scott of Royal Oak who has announced, once again, that she will compete with the Florida-transplant Rogers for the Senate seat like she did when the former congressman ran in 2024. Yes, Rogers only lost by 19,000 votes in the general election to Elissa Slotkin but there are many who were not impressed by his primary election victory numbers – 52.83 percent – against Peters Scott who took 42.45 percent. She made an appearance at the recent GOP Mackinac confab with one attendee ranking a speech she made as “so bad. The woman is a disaster.” Peters Scott bills herself as the “America First Candidate” and is often labeled as the “Stop The Steel” leader who some say has past ties to the White Nationalist Proud Boys. Think January 6 mob action. Even more concerning, some prognosticators say, is the likelihood that her entry will push Rogers even further to the fringe right to appease the sycophant MAGA element in the party, noting that he had already started sliding to the hard right like a Trump disciple before she made her recent announcement.
