Republican Michigan Senate candidate and former Rep.Mike Rogers said the Democratic Party's recent embrace of socialist candidates is evidence that the party has moved "so far to the left" that everyday Americans are now starting to "wake up" and notice."Welcome to the modern Democratic Party," Rogers told Fox News Digital.
"This is not your dad's Democratic Party.It's not your grandmother's Democratic Party.
This thing has veered so far to the left, and Michigan is at the epicenter of that."Following New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's mayoral primary victory, which shook the Democratic Party, three more socialist and progressive candidates emerged victorious in Democratic primaries.Mamdani-backed Democratic Socialists of America members Darializa Avila Chevalier and state Rep.Claire Valdez, as well as progressive Brad Lander, prevailed in their Democratic primaries this week.
The candidates have campaigned on platforms centered on abolishing ICE, universal healthcare, affordability and criticism of Israel.WINNERS AND LOSERS EMERGE AFTER SOCIALIST EARTHQUAKE ROCKS NYC PRIMARIESRepublican Senate candidate and former Rep.Mike Rogers told Fox News Digital that Americans are starting to "wake up" and see the Democratic Party's leftward shift.
(Fox News Digital ; Michael M.Santiago/Getty Images)The winning candidates have raised renewed concerns about where the future of the Democratic Party is headed.
Rogers said the Democratic Party has neglected working-class and middle-class Americans, leaving more people in Michigan questioning whether they should build their futures in the state or look for opportunities elsewhere."I think that the Democratic Party walked away from working and middle-class Americans a decade ago, and in Michigan, people are starting to wake up to this notion that we can't continue to do this and expect our kids to stay," he said.Rogers said Michigan has its own worries about socialism and called the ideas from far-left figures in Michigan "a...