A Former Trump Critic Shifts Toward Election Skepticism

“In the chaotic aftermath of the 2020 election, as President Trump refused to accept defeat and pumped out false claims about voter fraud, Mike Rogers was a clear and consistent voice of reproach,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Rogers, a former Republican representative from Michigan, denounced Mr. Trump’s efforts to undermine the election as ’cause for both concern and alarm.’ He ripped the president’s pressure on Georgia’s top election official ‘as more gangster than presidential.’ As for Mr. Trump’s role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Rogers declared, ‘You’re damn right you had responsibility for this.'”

“But as he aims to return to Washington, in a Senate race considered key to control of that chamber, Mr. Rogers has become an election skeptic.”