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Mike Rogers: “We are jeopardizing 400,000 working people in this state…”

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

Mike Rogers and Elissa Slotkin debate

Published October 14, 2024 | Video Starts at 43:40

I believe we can get there if we're smart. We don't do these ev mandates because it sounds good. We're We are jeopardizing 400,000 working people in this state, 400,000 people, by these [EV] mandates. We shouldn't do that. We can't get there. So here's what we've got to do. (43:40–43:49)

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Asserts that EV mandates threaten 400,000 jobs in Michigan.

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“EV mandates are killing their future, killing their jobs.”
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“Trillions and trillions of dollars of spending by the Biden Harris administration, 100% supported by my opponent, has driven up grocery…”
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“$1.6 trillion of regulate new regulation in the last four years.”
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“Voting for increased taxes on the middle class doesn't help the middle class.”
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“Voting for every big spending bill that came down the pipe in support 100% of the Biden Harris administration has cost us all of these costs…”
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“Voted for the EV mandate at least three times, and as soon as about four weeks ago, doubled down on her position on EV mandates.”
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“5000 auto dealers wrote an open letter to the Biden administration and said, you are killing the car business.”
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“They mandated you have to drive that car.”
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“My opponent signs an NDA that allows a Chinese battery company to go to outside a Goshen in order to facilitate her votes on EV mandates.”
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“She's lost 29,000 manufacturing jobs since she's been in office.”
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“According to Ford, a CEO, about 400,000 manufacturing jobs in the state of Michigan will go away with EV mandates.”
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“You cannot have a ceasefire until we get the hostages back, pure and simple.”
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“Iran is funding Hamas. They're training them, they're giving them weapons.”
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“Same with Hezbollah in the north. They're funding them, they're giving them weapons.”
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“Same with the Houthis. They're funding them, giving them weapons and training and even intelligence on what ships to shoot.”
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“She was the architect of the nuclear Iran nuclear deal, supported the fact that we released Iranian oil into the market.”
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“That gave them billions and billions of dollars.”
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“The state of Michigan and the people of Michigan went to the polls and voted. They voted to make abortion legal.”
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“They put it a part of their constitution, our constitution.”
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“I will respect the vote on the Michigan of the people of Michigan that they put as a part of the Michigan constitution.”
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“10 million persons coming across the border is because of a wide open border.”
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“The sheriff of Oakland county was just talking about another series of raids by illegal immigrants last night in Oakland county.”
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“That bill that my opponent talks about was voted down in a bipartisan way because it was a terrible bill.”
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“2 million illegal immigrants guaranteed to come across the border every single year.”
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“The state of Michigan just cut 93% of all school resource funds and mental health funds, including Oxford, by the way, where the shooting…”
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“I've been in law enforcement for a big chunk of my life. I was an FBI agent.”
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“Here in Michigan, 39% of third graders could read at grade level, 39%.”
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“If you don't read in the fourth grade, by the fourth grade, you have a 70% chance of going to prison or being on welfare.”
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“Forbes said $1.7 trillion to our economy if we get kids reading at the 12th grade, by the 12th grade.”
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“The bill that they supported still has our prices. I'll give you Ozempic as an example is $800 in France. It's dollar 80.”
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“The United States is continuing to support the rest of the world when it comes to research, development and cost of prescription drugs.”
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“We're going to make sure we do average sales price, including international, to bring their prices up and our prices down.”
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“Look at the prices that have gone up in the, the last six years when my opponent was in office. Not only prescription drug prices and…”
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“They did advantage foreign governments over us providers in Medicare.”
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“I put Medicare prescription drug when I was in Congress way back when as a part of Medicare. First time it's ever happened.”
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“If we are ever going to solve Social Security, we're going to have to have a bipartisan commission that actually sits down and goes through…”
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“My opponent's had five years to do something, has done nothing.”
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“People are afraid for their future in this state. They can't afford groceries. Their heating bill is up and they can't afford it.”
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“The votes to stymie our ability to be energy independent have been pretty brutal for people here in Michigan.”
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“You cannot do it at the expense of people who are worried about their next meal.”
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“I don't believe that your neighbor should write you a check for your school debt.”
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“We have desperate need for school counselors.”
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“We have not recruited a military class for the army, navy, air force, marines in all four years.”
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“Stop raising prices for these kids so that they can afford their student loan payments.”
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“I served as chairman of the House intelligence committee and proved that you can be bipartisan and get big things done.”
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“We ended up coming together, working hard, spending time line by line in a budget that's $78 billion and cut seven and a half billion…”
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“My opponent voted 100% with Biden Harris on all of the things that have raised your prices.”
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“I will do something about the education system in America.”
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“I will bring your prices down.”
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