Mike Rogers says Republicans will make 2024 election 'too massive to rig'

Michigan GOP Senate nominee Mike Rogers on Sunday prompt Republicans will win by “too massive” of margins in November, which can stop “rigging” of the overall elections.

When requested on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday” if he’s involved that claims of a stolen election will repeat this cycle, Rogers stated, “This is what we’re doing, Chris. We’re going to make this too massive to rig.”

“We’re coming from the UP [Upper Peninsula] of Michigan, we’re overperforming all the way in which downstate until we get to the southeast a part of Michigan, and we’re partaking folks on the problems,” he instructed NewsNation anchor Chris Stirewalt. “That is going to be not a black or white election. It will be a inexperienced election. Persons are hurting.”

Stirewalt then requested Rogers, a former congressman, if he’s involved that rigging occurred within the 2020 election or may happen this cycle.

“I believe there are anomalies in each single election everywhere in the nation that we’ve to fret about completely, and I’ve stated that from day one, together with after I had my very first election the place they discovered a bag of ballots below a clerk’s desk, and I gained the closest race within the nation in 2000,” Rogers responded. “So hear, I do know what occurs.”

“Everyone knows what occurs. So, what we’re attempting to do is, can we make it in order that we do not have to fret about discovering a bag of ballots someplace in the midst of the evening with the seal damaged?” he stated.

The remarks got here after former President Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday, threatening to prosecute legal professionals, political donors and operatives ought to they be discovered to have “cheated” or performed “unscrupulous conduct” with reference to voting.

“CEASE & DESIST,” Trump wrote in his publish. “I, along with many Attorneys and Authorized Students, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very carefully as a result of I do know, higher than most, the rampant Dishonest and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats within the 2020 Presidential Election,” he wrote.

Rogers argued that elections must be “simpler to vote” in and “tougher to cheat,” taking intention at Democrat-controlled states for contributing to doubts about election integrity.

“This questioning of the integrity of elections is a big downside for the nation, all of us,” he stated. “And my argument is that they must make it simpler to vote and tougher to cheat. That is not what the states have been doing –Democrat-controlled states — have been opening it up, making it a bit of bit much less clear if you’ll.”

Trump has repeatedly claimed there was widespread fraud within the 2020 election, which he misplaced to President Biden. He challenged the ends in courtroom, which rejected these claims for lack of standing or lack of proof. The Supreme Court docket rejected varied election challenges.

The previous president was criminally charged in Georgia for an alleged scheme to overturn the state’s election ends in 2020, and he was indicted federally in Washington, D.C., for his makes an attempt to overturn the election outcomes and stay in energy.

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Rogers will possible face off in opposition to Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) within the November race for the seat being vacated by retiring Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D).

The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook dinner Political Report charges the race as a “toss-up.” Slotkin leads Rogers within the polling common from Resolution Desk HQ/The Hill by about 6 factors.