Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has had his time in the sun. Now his time’s run out.
And Chuck Schumer is absolutely livid after learning how the GOP is playing him like a fiddle.
The Democrats have not had a very successful time getting anything done with the control they’ve had in Washington, D.C. over the years. In 2018, they took control of the U.S. House of Representatives and they were a nuisance in the plans of the Trump administration, but that’s about it.
Then in 2022, they lost the U.S. House and now they only maintain the U.S. Senate and the White House. Normally that would be enough to get some presidential nominations through the door and over the hump, but they haven’t even been able to do that.
Surveys of likely Democrat voters are very critical of how Democrats have been handling themselves in Washington, D.C. as approval of the Democrat leaders in power are a complete and utter dumpster fire.
Much of that disapproval has much to do with how much of a joke leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is in the U.S. Senate chamber. He’s been incompetent to even get his own Democrats on board with anything.
With Democrats set to defend twice as many seats as the Republicans in the Senate chamber, most political pollsters and experts are saying it’s all but certain that the GOP will be taking back control of the upper chamber.
The Republican Party is putting a ton of effort and resources into making sure that is the case, and that has Chuck Schumer a nervous Nancy who is sweating bullets. Evidence is in how sitting GOP representatives are sticking their necks out for GOP contenders trying to flip blue seats.
Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton has thrown his support behind former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers for Michigan’s open Senate seat, according to a report first obtained by reporters for the Daily Caller.
Rogers, who has been hand-picked by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), is the leading candidate in the GOP primary and is expected to challenge Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin in the November election. Cotton joins former President Donald Trump in endorsing Rogers, emphasizing Rogers’ commitment to countering China’s influence, according to a press release shared with the DCNF.
“China is our greatest threat and we need leaders like fellow Army veteran Mike Rogers in the U.S. Senate to help stop them,” Cotton stated. “Mike’s spent his career fighting China’s economic and military hostilities and leading the charge on calling out their efforts to undermine our security. I’m proud to join President Trump in endorsing Mike Rogers to be Michigan’s next U.S. Senator.”
Several other GOP senators, including Steve Daines of Montana, John Barrasso of Wyoming, Katie Britt of Alabama, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Joni Ernst of Iowa, and John Kennedy of Louisiana, have also endorsed Rogers, according to his campaign.
Support for Rogers extends to Republican Michigan Reps. Jack Bergman, Lisa McClain, and Tim Walberg, as well as former Rep. Candice Miller and former Detroit Police Chief James Craig. Craig, who suspended his Senate campaign in mid-February to consider a 2025 mayoral run in Detroit, quickly endorsed Rogers. Former GOP Rep. Peter Meijer also withdrew from the race on April 26, citing significant changes in the race’s dynamics.
In the upcoming August 6 GOP primary, former congressman Justin Amash, businessman Sandy Pensler, and physician Sherry O’Donnell are among Rogers’ challengers. Amash, who left the Republican Party in 2019 and voted to impeach Trump, is notably one of the candidates.
A survey by Emerson College, released on May 3, shows Rogers leading with 32% support among registered Republican voters. Amash follows with 8%, while Pensler and O’Donnell trail at 3% and 2%, respectively. The same poll indicates Slotkin holds a narrow lead over Rogers, with a two-point advantage and 19% of voters still undecided.
Donald Trump threw his support behind Mike Rogers to flip that Michigan seat Red once again. He said he was a “highly respected former Congressman” who will “fight to secure the border” and that he had his “total endorsement.”
In 2012, Debbie Stabenow comfortably beat Republican contender Pete Hoekstra by more than twenty points. Then in 2018, she once again won but this time by a smaller margin of about 7 points.
The race between the two top candidates, Democrat Slotkin and Republican Rogers, is proving to be extremely close. The Republicans flipping the seat would be a huge change in fortune in the state after just one decade ago when Stabenow dominated her opponent by twenty points.
All this is pointing to the GOP looking to have serious success come this November in the U.S. Senate.
The Conservative Column will keep you updated on any major U.S. Senate races.
