Why Mike Rogers has a chance in Michigan

In the suburbs of Detroit, there are a shocking number of pro-Trump signs in Michiganders’ yards. (My parents have at least 10 in their own yard — just in case the neighbors had any doubts). There are far fewer for Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate for Michigan’s open Senate seat.

It could be that not many Michiganders are familiar with Rogers, a former representative who served in the Army and then worked for the FBI. My father is about as politically involved as it gets in the state and hasn’t seen or heard much from Rogers until recently when the Republican funding apparatus started pouring tens of millions of dollars into Rogers’s race against Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI).