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MR Mike Rogers Mike Rogers Mike Rogers is a former Republican U.S. representative for Michigan's 8th district, serving from 2001 to 2015.

“We're leading the return rate. Now, this doesn't mean we're up by seven points, but the return rate is 7% higher than the Democrats. That's much better than it was in 2022 by a significant margin.”

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show · US Politics · October 2026

“We're leading the return rate. Now, this doesn't mean we're up by seven points, but the return rate is 7% higher than the Democrats. That's much better than it was in 2022 by a significant margin.” — Mike Rogers, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Context

Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, describes his campaign's read of early-vote returns on The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, about a week before the election. He says his campaign relies on modeling because Michigan has no party registration.

Transcript

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show Around 29:51 into the episode
Clay Travis

Early voting is underway. We've got a big audience in Michigan. I know you said you're on this barnstorming tour all over the state. What are the early voting numbers looking like so far as you can see? And why is it important if people can in Michigan to get out and vote early for you?

Speaker 4

Just explain all that.

Mike Rogers

…here, so we can't say, you know, Mike Rogers voted, he's a registered Republican. We can't see that. But we have modeling for these folks and, you know, have identified people who are low propensity Republican voters, high propensity Republican voters. So when you just lay it down and say, okay, if these people vote, they are likely to vote for you by modeling. And this is pretty accurate. We're leading the return rate. Now, this doesn't mean we're up by seven points, but the return rate is 7% higher than the Democrats. That's much better than it was in 2022 by a significant margin. So we're thinking that that's people who are fired up and excited to make sure that Abdul does not get into the United States Senate. And we think that's a huge important statistic for us. that we're just continuing to do the right thing. And when you vote early, which we wish you would, off our list, you would expect sort of that or more mail or kind of door. And we are pretty sophisticated at…

Speaker 4

Okay, rogersforsenate.com. He's cutting up there because he's on the campaign trail.

Clay Travis

I think he's breaking up a little bit, but he's saying go get your ballots in and get your friends and neighbors get their ballots in as well. But those numbers are very, very encouraging. Buck's on the side of the good guys now. Mike Rogers is going to win the website, rogersforsenate.com.

Buck Sexton

Rogersforsenate.com, guys. Everyone in Michigan, don't just go vote. Tell your friends to vote. Make sure you get somebody else to go vote.

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