REPORT: Republicans Pour Seven Figures Into Trump-Backed Rep’s Senate Bid As Primary Battle Heats Up
'The Michigan Senate race is one of our top pickup opportunities in 2024'
'Deep State candidate': Rand Paul sounds off on Trump's endorsement of former Rep. Mike Rogers for US Senate
Former President Donald Trump has endorsed former Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan for U.S. Senate, but GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is speaking out against Trump's move.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, "Mike Rogers will be a Great and Powerful Senator for Michigan, and has my Complete and Total Endorsement."
"Donald Trump just endorsed the worst Deep State candidate this cycle. @MikeRogersForMI is a never Trumper, and a card carrying member of the spy state that seeks to destroy Trump. You have to ask yourself who gives Trump this awful advice? Who's next, John Bolton?" Paul tweeted.
"If he's good with Mike Rogers (R-Deep State), maybe he should pick Liz Cheney for VP?" Paul quipped in another post.
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Rogers is one of the candidates running in the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Michigan. Former Reps. Justin Amash and Peter Meijer are also among those running in the contest, but both of them have previously voted to impeach Trump.
Meijer, who served in Congress from early 2021 until early 2023, was one of the House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in the wake of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Amash, who served in Congress from early 2011 until early 2021, voted impeach Trump in 2019. He was no longer a House lawmaker when the chamber voted to impeach Trump in 2021.
"Mike Rogers might have the worst record of anyone I served with in Congress. He not only voted for the surveillance state, he was one of its chief architects," Amash tweeted.
Edward Snowden replied to Amash, writing, "Could have stopped at 'anyone.'"
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BlazeTV host Matt Kibbe tweeted, "Can't get more Deep State than Mike Rogers. This is @realDonaldTrump's Achilles heel. He values sycophancy over principles, even when the sycophants he empowers actively work against his stated interests. See John Bolton."
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Former Rep. Justin Amash announces US Senate bid
Former U.S. Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan has announced a U.S. Senate bid, indicating that he will compete in the Republican primary.
"After thoroughly evaluating all aspects of a potential campaign, I'm convinced that no candidate would be better positioned to win both the Republican primary and the general election. That's why, today, I'm making it official: I'm joining the race for United States Senate in Michigan," Amash declared in a post on X.
"As I wrote when I launched my exploratory committee: We need a principled, consistent constitutional conservative in the Senate—someone with a record of taking on the bipartisan oligarchy, defending sound money and free speech, fighting the surveillance state and military-industrial complex, and protecting all our rights," he noted. Amash had announced in January that he was considering a Senate bid.
"Follow the Constitution. Read the bills. Stop governing by emergency. End the forever war. Cut taxes & spending. Stop borrowing trillions. No CBDC. Protect free speech. Repeal the Patriot Act & FISA 702. No qualified immunity for government officials. End civil asset forfeiture," Amash wrote in another post.
On his X account, Amash describes himself as a "libertarian" and "constitutional conservative."
While serving as a House lawmaker from early 2011 until early 2021, Amash switched from Republican to independent in 2019. That same year, he voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump.
In 2020, Amash switched to libertarian and openly considered a presidential bid. "I launched an exploratory committee to seek the [Libertarian Party's] nomination for president of the United States," Amash tweeted. But less than three weeks later he tweeted, "circumstances don’t lend themselves to my success as a candidate for president this year, and therefore I will not be a candidate."
Amash is jumping into a Republican primary that includes figures such as former Rep. Peter Meijer and former Rep. Mike Rogers.
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Former Rep. Justin Amash considers US Senate bid
Former Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump in 2019, announced that he is thinking about jumping into the 2024 Michigan U.S. Senate GOP primary.
"Today I'm launching the Justin Amash for Senate Exploratory Committee as I consider entering the race," Amash tweeted. "We need a principled, consistent constitutional conservative in the Senate—someone with a record of taking on the bipartisan oligarchy, defending sound money and free speech, fighting the surveillance state and military-industrial complex, and protecting all our rights. The stakes are high: freedom, social cooperation, and human progress itself."
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Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan announced last year that she will depart the Senate when her term ends in early 2025.
If Amash throws his hat into the ring, he will join a Republican primary field that already includes figures such as former Rep. Peter Meijer, former Rep. Mike Rogers, and former Detroit Police Chief James Craig.
Amash served as a House lawmaker from early 2011 until early 2021. While he served as a Republican throughout most of his tenure, he dumped the GOP in 2019 and became an independent, and then switched to be a libertarian in 2020.
In 2020, he announced an exploratory committee to pursue the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination, but less than a month later, said he would not run. "I've concluded that circumstances don't lend themselves to my success as a candidate for president this year, and therefore I will not be a candidate," he tweeted.
Amash, who currently describes himself on X as a libertarian, has advocated for ending the Federal Reserve. "Not just no central bank digital currency. No central bank. End the Fed," he tweeted.
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