GOP candidate Mike Rogers' biggest problem in U.S. Senate race: He's not mean | Opinion

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59% : This is who Michigan's next senator should beRogers' supporters can likely guess that Rogers will take a deep breath when voting for Trump -- let's be honest, many of them will do the same -- but Rogers' support of Trump has cost him the support of at least a few individuals this reporter has heard from.
52% : This is the challenge for Republican candidates, who must tiptoe a fine line between idolatry towards Trump, and appeasing those who can't stand Trump.
49% : What do Trump Republicans say to such graciousness?
42% : The early voting splits in Iowa and New Hampshire show that: Trump got better than 50% of Republican votes, but that will not be enough to win in November.Which brings us back to Rogers, who big-name Republicans think is the most electable candidate.
39% : He has been a consistent conservative, as conservatives are today defined, opposing abortion rights and gun control.
35% : Anti-Trumpists/anti-autocrats will turn on anyone seen as vacillating towards Trump.
33% : But Trump, the probable Republican 2024 presidential nominee, wouldn't attend a ceremony overseas honoring World War I dead during his tenure as president.
31% : In today's Republican Party, you dare not criticize Trump and survive.
28% : Was that the reason Rogers finally endorsed Trump by name instead of uttering the safe line that he would "support the party's nominee?"More from John Lindstrom:
20% : Former U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer has a potentially fatal problem for GOP voters: He voted to impeach Trump (some Democrats believe that's why he's the strongest Republican candidate; unfortunately, not a lot of Republicans agree).
17% : But do big-name Republicans not realize how ugly-mean their party has become?When Rogers jumped into the Senate race, he had not endorsed Trump for president.
17% : His staffers reported later that Trump had described the French cemetery where the ceremony was held, and which included American dead, as "filled with losers.
8% : Or to suit Trump himself, who spent nearly half his New Hampshire primary victory speech trash-talking his opponent, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley?
8% : More from John Lindstrom: Michigan GOP chair Kristina Karamo says she knows what Engler, Snyder were up toRogers' criticisms of Trump on Putin, Ukraine and other security issues are reasonable.
6% : Folks, Rogers is on record on CNN -- you can find it on YouTube -- saying Trump screwed up handling Russian President Vladimir Putin.
6% : But he criticized Trump, and according to some, the Lord has anointed Trump.

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