{"id":99541,"date":"2026-09-16T16:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mike-rogers-defends-skipping-michigan-senate-event-we-never-agreed-to-it\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:26:25","slug":"mike-rogers-defends-skipping-michigan-senate-event-we-never-agreed-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mike-rogers-defends-skipping-michigan-senate-event-we-never-agreed-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Rogers defends skipping Michigan Senate event: &#8220;We never agreed to it&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Republican Mike Rogers is defending his decision not to attend a Sept. 15 televised event with Democratic opponent Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan&#8217;s U.S. Senate race, saying he never agreed to participate and accusing the moderator of favoritism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, first of all, it&#8217;s not a debate. It&#8217;s a town hall. We never agreed to it,&#8221; Rogers said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/video\/mike-rogers-talks-declining-fox-2-detroit-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">one-on-one with CBS News Detroit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed took part in Tuesday&#8217;s event on FOX 2 Detroit. The station said it invited both candidates on Aug. 5 and that El-Sayed accepted the next day. Rogers&#8217; campaign says it never agreed to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The general election matchup between El-Sayed and Rogers is one of the most closely watched contests in the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforpolitics.org\/crystalball\/2026-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UVA Center for Politics<\/a> rates the race as a toss-up. The Senate seat, being opened up by retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters, is a must-win for control of the upper chamber.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rogers&#8217; campaign released a statement accusing the station of favoritism and suggesting the moderator had already taken sides. Rogers made the same argument in his interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you have someone who&#8217;s already picked their candidate, you can&#8217;t have a two-on-one event in a TV studio,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed said Rogers was avoiding a confrontation over his record and his support for President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I were him, I wouldn&#8217;t debate me either,&#8221; El-Sayed said after Tuesday&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p>He said Rogers did not want to answer questions about tariffs involving Canada or the cost of war, and he criticized Rogers for making time to speak at a Republican convention in Dallas while turning down the Detroit event.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers rejected the suggestion that he had broken a commitment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We never had it on our schedule,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also objected to the station&#8217;s plan to leave a podium open for him, calling that approach &#8220;highly unprofessional.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rogers said voters will get their chance to see the candidates side by side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re gonna get two debates right here in Michigan,&#8221; he told CBS Detroit. Both candidates have agreed to debates on Oct. 8 and Oct. 21.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed had pressed for more. He <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/abdul-el-sayed-detroit-speech-michigan-democratic-senate-primary\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">challenged Rogers to five debates<\/a><\/span> on Aug. 5, the day CBS News projected he had won the Democratic primary, CBS Detroit reported at the time. Most recently, Rogers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/video\/rogers-el-sayed-detail-priorities-as-michigan-senate-race-continues\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">made his case at a Detroit rally<\/a> on Sunday while El-Sayed laid out his priorities on &#8220;<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/abdul-el-sayed-michigan-democrat-senate-face-the-nation-transcript-09-13-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan<\/a><\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed is meeting with Democratic senators at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/heath-kalb\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Heath  Kalb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mike-rogers-senate-debate-abdul-el-sayed\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Mike Rogers is defending his decision not to attend a Sept. 15 televised event with Democratic opponent Abdul El-Sayed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5125,901,158,899],"class_list":["post-99541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-debate","tag-michigan","tag-politics","tag-united-states-senate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mike Rogers defends skipping Michigan Senate event: &quot;We never agreed to it&quot; - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Republican says the event was a town hall he never committed to and was never on his schedule. 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