GOP Rogers on Dem Stevens Breaking with Her Party to Endorse Him: This Is About ‘Standing Together Against Hate,’ and the Future of the Country

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ROGERS: "Congressman, thanks. Thanks. At this point for let me just say, I‘m honored to have Haley Stevens support today. I‘m honored to have earned that vote. You know, when I got the call this morning, obviously, it‘s probably not the day we anticipated going forward today, but when we decided to, this would be good to worship together. Today. I‘ll just give you a flavor, a little bit of flavor about this. We talked about America. What was better for Americans? What was better for the future of our state by bringing people together? You know, Martin Luther King said, you cannot solve darkness with darkness. You have to solve it with light. You can‘t solve hate with hate. You have to solve it with love. And I talked to Haley about that letter, love letter to Michigan that she wrote that I thought was very, very good. And candidly, I‘m not I‘m glad I‘m not running against Haley Stevens stevens today. But what we decided is sometimes there are so the hate grows so loud that it jeopardizes. Some of our citizens in this state. When young Jewish women have to hide their star of David‘s to walk across University of Michigan campus, we have gone too far. When young men have to wear ball caps over their yarmulkes because they are getting harassed for being Jewish. We have gone too far. This is more a statement about standing together against hate and the future of this state and this country, than it is anything else. And I just want you to know, she reminded me at the end of the call, remember, I‘m still a Democrat."