DETROIT, Michigan — Republican Mike Rogers is confident he'll defeat whichever Democratic rival he faces off with in the midterm elections in the crucial Senate showdown in this Great Lakes battleground state."It doesn't matter to us.We've looked at both candidates.
We feel confident we're going to beat either one of those candidates that come out of that race," Rogers said in a Fox News Digital interview two days before Michigan's primary.Abdul El-Sayed, a former Wayne County Health Department director who unsuccessfully ran an insurgent campaign for governor in 2018, is facing off for the Democratic Party's nomination in Michigan against Rep.Haley Stevens, a more moderate candidate backed by the establishment.
The primary race is the biggest battle to date in the party's ideological war between the far-left and the center-left.THE MIDTERM SENATE RACES THAT COULD FLIP THE BALANCE OF POWER IN CONGRESSDemocratic Senate candidate Rep.Haley Stevens of Michigan, right, and retiring Sen.
Gary Peters, at a campaign rally on Aug.2, 2026, in Madison Heights, Michigan.
(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News )Rogers says both El-Sayed and Stevens "are very radical, and they are way too extreme for Michigan." And pointing to El-Sayed, he charged, "Abdul, he has his own special sauce of crazy."The expensive and combustible scrum between El-Sayed and Stevens in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen.Gary Peters, who is backing Stevens, is bolstering Republicans and potentially endangering a must-hold seat in November for the Democrats as they face an uphill challenge to win back the Senate majority."That certainly helps," Rogers said as he pointed to the Democratic primary battle.Rogers, a former congressman who lost the 2024 Senate election in Michigan by a razor-thin margin while President Trump narrowly carried the state, touted that while the Democrats engage in what some describe as a civil war, "we've unified the Republican Party in a way I haven't seen in decades here o...