The Senate Leadership Fund is transferring $10 million toward former Rep. Mike Rogers’s (R-MI) efforts to flip Michigan’s Senate seat red. The super PAC is linked with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Recent internal polling has shown Rogers down 46% to 38% in Michigan after the Republican led Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) by a percentage point in August.
The Michigan Senate race is one of several swing races, and it is a key battle if the GOP wants to attain a Senate majority.
“Michiganders don’t like that Elissa Slotkin has consistently voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ green energy agenda. These voters are looking for a change from the Democrat status quo,” SLF President and CEO Steven Law told Axios in a statement.
The SLF previously announced a $22.5 million infusion into Rogers’s race on Sept. 30 after largely focusing on races in Montana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Slotkin and Rogers debated for the second and final time Monday, leaving voters with about three weeks until Election Day to finalize their decisions. In the debate, Slotkin made abortion a primary topic, suggesting Rogers shouldn’t be trusted on abortion rights because of his previous voting record.
Rogers chose to go after Slotkin on electric vehicles in the auto-industry state. The former House Republican accused Slotkin of “promoting Chinese technology in America” and voting for an electric vehicle mandate.
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According to RealClearPolitics’s polling average, Slotkin has a 2-point lead on Rogers, 47.7% to 45.7%. The race has recently tightened in the average after Slotkin led decisively for most of August.
The Washington Examiner contacted Rogers’s campaign, but it declined to comment.