Mike Rogers (Michigan politician)

Mike Rogers was born in 1963 in Howell, in Livingston County, Michigan. He graduated from Howell High School and in 1985 earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and sociology from Adrian College.⁠[1][2]

In 1985 Rogers was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and assigned to the 7th Infantry Division at Fort Ord, California; he served in the Army until 1989.⁠[1][2]

After his military service Rogers worked as an FBI special agent in Chicago.⁠[1][3]

From 1995 to 2000 Rogers represented the 26th District in the Michigan Senate, where he served as Senate Majority Floor Leader.⁠[2][1]

In 2000 Rogers was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, serving from 2001 to 2015; he was a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.⁠[2][1][3]

From 2011 to 2014 Rogers chaired the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.⁠[2][1]

Rogers won the 2024 Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan with 63.2% of the vote and then lost the general election to Democrat Elissa Slotkin, 48.3% to 48.6%, a margin of just over 19,000 votes.⁠[2][4]

On April 14, 2025, Rogers announced that he would again seek Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, saying: “I’ll always fight for Michigan’s values in the United States Senate.”⁠[4]

On August 4, 2026, Rogers won the Republican nomination unopposed, having consolidated support from President Donald Trump and national Republican leaders. His general-election opponent was Abdul El-SayedAbdul El-SayedAbdul El-Sayed is an American Democratic politician, physician and epidemiologist who led the Detroit Health Department and ran in Michigan’s 2018 gubernatorial primary. In November 2026 he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Michigan.Open the full entry, who won the Democratic primary.⁠[5][6]

In Michigan’s U.S. Senate election on November 3, 2026, Rogers lost to Democrat Abdul El-Sayed; the Associated Press called the race for El-Sayed.⁠[7]

After leaving Congress Rogers owned a business and worked as a cybersecurity professional. He was a Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute, hosted the nationally syndicated Westwood One radio show “Something to Think About with Mike Rogers,” and was a CNNCNNCNN (Cable News Network) is an Atlanta-based news organization founded by Ted Turner on June 1, 1980, as the world’s first 24-hour television news channel. It has been owned in turn by Turner Broadcasting System, Time Warner, AT&T and Warner Bros. Discovery, became part of Skydance Corporation along with Warner Bros. Discovery in October 2026, and is one of the five networks that rotate in the White House television pool.Open the full entry national security contributor and host and executive producer of the CNN series “Declassified.”⁠[2][3]

Rogers for Senate: Official website: https://rogersforsenate.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[8]

X: Public account: https://x.com/MikeRogersForMI (opens in a new window).⁠[8]

YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry: Public channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MikeRogersForMI (opens in a new window).⁠[8]