{"id":21403,"date":"2026-04-16T02:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rogers-holds-slim-cash-advantage-in-michigan-over-dem-opponents\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:02:01","slug":"rogers-holds-slim-cash-advantage-in-michigan-over-dem-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rogers-holds-slim-cash-advantage-in-michigan-over-dem-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers holds slim cash advantage in Michigan over Dem opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers has opened up a small cash advantage over his Democratic rivals in Michigan\u2019s open Senate race as they battle through a competitive primary. But he hasn\u2019t taken full advantage of the hard-fought contest on the other side to build a big financial edge.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers raised $2.2 million over the first three months of the year and began April with $4.2 million in cash on hand, according to his federal campaign finance filing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a small cushion, however, especially considering that he has no serious primary competition, with two of his three Democratic potential opponents outraising him for the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Mallory McMorrow raked in $3 million and had nearly $3.7 million in cash on hand. Abdul El-Sayed raised just under $2.3 million and had $2.5 million in the bank. And Rep. Haley Stevens brought in $2 million and had nearly $3.4 million in her coffers.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Rogers is in a better financial position now than at this point in his last Senate run, when he had less than $1.4 million in cash on hand compared to now-Sen. Elissa Slotkin\u2019s $8.6 million. Slotkin beat Rogers in that race by just 19,000 votes as Trump won the state by an 80,000-vote margin.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers is in line for some significant outside aid. The Senate Leadership Fund, a top Republican super PAC, said earlier this month that it would pour $45 million into flipping the seat that will be critical to determining control of the chamber.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers has opened up a small cash advantage over his Democratic rivals in Michigan\u2019s open Senate race as they battle through a competitive primary. But he hasn\u2019t taken full advantage of the hard-fought contest on the other side to build a big financial edge. Rogers raised $2.2 million over the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}