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Start free trial →The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show · US Politics · October 2026
Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, is interviewed on The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show about a week before the election. He was asked which voter groups could decide the race.
Faith in you, Senator. I'm not going to lie.
…has to show up. We know the Trump voter has to show up. Who else has to come out for you that you think is the difference-maker constituency in your state of Michigan? Give me some of the profiles or some of the demos, or who do you think can be the difference-maker for you in these final days?
…country right now. We've just crossed 7 million doors, which has never been done here. College Republicans came in last weekend and just college Republicans knocked on 20,000 doors last week. I mean, it's just Really, really impressive. And we're just not cut canvas in neighborhoods. It's very targeted. So it's huge and valuable. Then we're going to add this Jewish Democrats to our coalition. And here's the one that's been pleasantly surprising for us. African-American voters in Detroit and Pontiac and Flint. And we're not going to win those areas. We know that. But could we move that needle 5% and 6% and 7%? We think absolutely yes. It's going so well, we ended up opening an office. in Detroit and not downtown. We're out in the neighborhoods so people could participate and pick up their signs. And the number one sign flying out of those doors, Democrats for Rogers in the city of Detroit. And so we're working that. We're talking to them. We are. I've spent a lot of time down there, met with dozens of black pastors across the…
I know that. You just laid out all the people you need to come vote. How much is a couple of parts here? How much is John James helping?
He's running.
I want everybody to know, too, as governor in Michigan in an open governor seat. And also, how much of this is El Sayed's arrogance? Because I've seen a lot of traditional Democrat voters, black, like you said, in Detroit and Flint. in different communities that have large black populations, just…