Mike Rogers says Republicans will make 2024 election 'too big to rig'
Michigan GOP Senate nominee Mike Rogers on Sunday suggested Republicans will win by margins that are "too big" in November, which will prevent "rigging" of the general elections.
When asked on NewsNation's "The Hill Sunday" if he is concerned that claims of a stolen election will repeat this cycle, Rogers said, "Here's what we are doing ... We are going to make this too big to rig."
"We are coming from the UP [Upper Peninsula] of Michigan, we're overperforming all the way downstate till we get to the southeast part of Michigan, and we're engaging people on the issues," he told NewsNation anchor Chris Stirewalt. "This is going to be not a black or white election. It's going to be a green election. People are hurting."
Stirewalt then asked Rogers, a former congressman, if he is concerned that rigging occurred in the 2020 election or could occur this cycle.
"I think there are anomalies in every single election all over the country that we have to worry about, absolutely, and I've said that from day one, including when I had my very first election where they found a bag of ballots under a clerk's desk, and I won the closest race in the country in 2000," Rogers responded. "So listen, I know what happens."
"We all know what happens. So, what we're trying to do is, can we make it so that we don't have to worry about finding a bag of ballots somewhere in the middle of the night with the seal broken?" he said.
The remarks came after former President Trump posted Saturday to Truth Social, threatening to prosecute lawyers, political donors and operatives should they be found to have "cheated" or conducted "unscrupulous behavior" with regards to voting.
"CEASE & DESIST," Trump wrote in his post. "I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election," he wrote.
Rogers argued that elections need to be "easier to vote" and "harder to cheat" in, taking aim at Democrat-controlled states for contributing to doubts about election integrity.
"This questioning of the integrity of elections is a huge problem for the country, all of us," he said. "And my argument is they ought to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat. That's not what the states have been doing — Democrat-controlled states — have been opening it up, making it a little bit less transparent if you will."
Trump has repeatedly claimed there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election, which he lost to President Biden. He challenged the results in court, which rejected those claims for lack of standing or evidence. The Supreme Court rejected various election challenges.
The former president was criminally charged in Georgia for an alleged scheme to overturn the state’s election results in 2020, and he was indicted federally in Washington, D.C., for his attempts to overturn the election results and remain in power.
NewsNation is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which also owns The Hill.
Rogers will likely face off against Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) in the November race for the seat being vacated by retiring Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D).
The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report rates the race as a “toss-up.” Slotkin leads Rogers in the polling average from Decision Desk HQ/The Hill by about 6 points.
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