Republican Mike Rogers, the presumptive Senate nominee in Michigan, told Fox News Digital he is confident he can defeat either Democratic candidate in November, dismissing both as too extreme for the state's voters. The interview came two days before Michigan's Democratic primary, in which former Wayne County health official Abdul El-Sayed is facing Rep Haley Stevens for the party's nomination, making this a closely watched battleground-state Senate race ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Rogers said his campaign had studied both potential opponents and felt equally confident of victory regardless of who wins the primary, casting their policies as an extreme "special sauce of crazy" unlikely to appeal to general-election voters. El-Sayed, who previously ran an unsuccessful insurgent campaign for Michigan governor in 2018, has drawn high-profile endorsements, including from progressive "Squad" members, ahead of the primary vote.