Opinion by David Ignatius: Has midterms disappointment increased the Republican Party’s appetite for someone with a resume like former congressman Mike Rogers? He’s a snapshot of what the party looked like before the Donald Trump circus arrived.
Rogers is among the least known in the potential field of candidates. He doesn’t register in thewhich shows Trump with 46 percent support; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at 20 percent; former vice president Mike Pence at 7 percent; Sen. Ted Cruz at 3 percent; former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley at 2 percent; and former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and Sen. Tim Scott at 1 percent each. But so early in the game, this is mostly a name-recognition exercise.
During Trump’s presidency, Rogers went into the wilderness, which might be an advantage now, because he doesn’t carry any Trump-era baggage. Now, Rogers is direct and unambiguous in rejecting Trump’s claims that he won the 2020 election, and in condemning the violence that followed. “Biden was lawfully elected to the presidency,” he says. As for: “There is never a time in American democracy when violence accomplishes what you want.
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