MI-SEN: Republican super PAC pours $33 million into Mike Rogers Senate campaign

The Senate Leadership Fund, a Republican super PAC, has made two investments totaling $33 million into former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers’ U.S. Senate campaign. These donations come in the wake of fundraising struggles for the Rogers campaign and broader financial troubles within the Michigan Republican Party.

The first donation, a sum of $22.5 million, was announced on Sept. 30 as part of a wider $67.5 million investment from the SLF in several swing states in hopes of flipping the Senate to a Republican majority. These funds were particularly helpful to Rogers’ campaign, which has been significantly outperformed in grassroots fundraising by his opponent, U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Holly.

In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Business junior Hudson Schantz, vice chairman of the U-M chapter of College Republicans, said he attributed this lack of fundraising to internal conflict within the state party.

“There’s been crazy leadership changes, and they haven’t really had their act together,” Schantz said. “I don’t know how much money they have, but last I heard, they don’t have that much money. So, I think they need some help from the national stage, of course, and that’s where this super PAC comes in.”


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