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Mike Rogers: “I opposed [James] Comey.”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Michigan

Senate Seat Showdown feat. Mike Rogers | Ep. 92

Published May 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 42:07

That is just simply not true. There's a lot of great agents. A couple, I think you did get get looped in with the Comey's of the world. Yeah, and I opposed [James] Comey. I. It was. It's like if someone read the Detroit News now and sees that it sucks and is like, well, you used to work at the News, you must suck. (42:07)

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Asserts that Mike Rogers opposed James Comey.

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“I think the number is somewhere over 130,000 voters walked in, voted for Donald Trump and turned around and left.”
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“The Biden administration gave California a waiver to pass these really strident, stringent EV mandates where gasoline cars are going to be…”
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“A builder the other day told me just in the eight years that the Whitmer administration has added almost $12,000 per house in new regulatory…”
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“Our education has down to 43 in the country.”
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“Toyota builds more cars in America than American cars are built in America.”
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“For 32 years, we've had two Democrats representing the state of Michigan in the United States Senate.”
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“We've lost manufacturing, our education is. What are we now, 43rd in the country?”
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“Every time that one of those auto manufacturing jobs goes south, we lose a middle class family in the state of Michigan.”
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“We got out, raised five to one, didn't raise most of our money, 70% of our money, till after the primary.”
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“We still got within 3/10 of 1%.”
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“We came closer to Trump votes, think of this by percentage, than any other competitive U.S. senate race in the country.”
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“They spent literally, I don't know what it was close to $100 million absolutely trashing me.”
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“Outraised 5 to 1, we thought we were going to get some outside help in September. It didn't come. It came in October.”
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“We only have to have 85% of people who already voted for us to come back in the midterm.”
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“I won my first race when I ran for Congress. It was a Democrat seat, candidly a Democrat year in Michigan.”
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“We drove up Republican voters.”
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“Making sure that the soo locks get, get finished.”
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“The F15s at Selfridge, there's some more work to be done to make sure that we get them.”
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“Donald Trump did it for the stroke of a pen.”
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“We had a senator who was chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Couldn't get it done.”
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“Our federal court system a lot more liberal than it would be.”
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“Republicans or conservatives have not been allowed in the United States Senate for 32 years.”
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“Haley Stevens just two weeks ago wanted to put men in girls locker rooms.”
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“Haley Stevens just voted for California's laws over Michigan workers.”
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“Haley Stevens picked California and watched our folks get laid off here in Michigan.”
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“He got 30% of the vote.”
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“He just walked out of the Senate, or, excuse me, the House, the State House, had all those bills, couldn't control the place, and said, hell…”
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“This is going to be the first chance to rebuke what Governor Whitmer has done to the state.”
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“We've basically said, you know, we're a union only state. That's just not healthy for any of us.”
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“They don't have income tax. Really nice. Their corporate tax is pretty low.”
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“By the way, the Democrats want to bring back the death tax.”
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“This may be the closest we're ever going to come to peace in the Middle East.”
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“He came back with $2.5 trillion in investment.”
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“We came as close as anyone in 32 years and that high number of Republican votes was, we think because of our great ground game.”
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“When James Comey got in, I think he destroyed 70 years of what was a culture of staying out of politics, being law enforcement.”
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“I never went near headquarters because I thought that place was bad when I was in Asia.”
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“Looking at where the FBI is today, I think it's in a much better shape than it was even six months ago.”
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“The Democrats spent money targeting libertarians.”
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