On the record · Updated October 18, 2026
Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan
7 things Mike Rogers said, verbatim, from August 21, 2026 to October 17, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the questions at issue, with who supported, disputed, or qualified each one.
Supports
“We have all of the facts. I just wish the press would do their work and investigate the facts,”
USA Today Ocasio-Cortez sends El-Sayed $1 million as Vance calls him a "weasel" ›
Others on this question
El-Sayed, a former Wayne County public health official from Ann Arbor, has said he has "no ties" to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Raj said he couldn't find a direct connection between El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Disputes
“You get to pray any way you want, and I passionately believe that. It is about your ideology and how you think.”
CBS News Ocasio-Cortez sends El-Sayed $1 million as Vance calls him a "weasel" ›
Others on this question
Ocasio-Cortez, a potential 2028 presidential contender, said the attacks on El-Sayed's faith were "to create fear."
Supports
“Anybody that wants to help my campaign stop a guy who can’t condemn terrorism in our own country because he’s so close to the people who are supporting the Muslim Brotherhood”
NBC News Rogers asks if El-Sayed has family on a watchlist in Michigan's first Senate debate ›
Others on this question
In Michigan, Republican Mike Rogers tried to tie Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's family to terrorism, despite there being no evidence.
Supports
“The war with Iran needs to end and end quickly.”
The Dispatch Iowa's Ashley Hinson and Michigan's Mike Rogers call for the Iran war to end ›
Others on this question
“The president has final say in regards to this, but I just believe that we should be exiting Iran, that it's time to move on . . . time to come home, take care of business here in America,”
Supports
“He can’t condemn his running mate Hasan Piker because they’re in total lockstep, and now he’s degraded the second lady of the United States of America,”
MSNBC El-Sayed tells Michigan's Jewish Democrats he would "take it all the way back," and his campaign starts interviewing candidates for a Jewish liaison job ›
Others on this question
“Of course it was a dumb statement, and of course I think Hasan himself would say that was a dumb statement,”
Disputes
“a win-win-win for us”
Jacobin Six months into the Iran war, Trump swaps bombs for sanctions, and Iran's president says the gasoline is not coming in ›
Others on this question
“the biggest, most costly foreign policy blunders in the history of our country”
Supports
“I think we need to take a pause, probably, and make sure that we’re answering all the questions that people have,”
Washington Examiner The GOP's Senate campaign arm tells AI companies their data centers are sinking Jon Husted, and Trump says the same week he would "absolutely want" one ›
Others on this question
“I think it's a mistake”
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