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Candidate
Mike Rogers

Mike Rogers

Running for U.S. Senate · Michigan

NationalRepublican

Candidate
Abdul El-Sayed

Abdul El-Sayed

Running for U.S. Senate · Michigan

NationalDemocrat

Mike RogersCandidateAbdul El-SayedChallenger

Job fit

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Top issues

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How they voted on top issues

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Who pays them

Mike Rogers

Where the campaign money came from1

small donorslarge donorsother politicianscompaniespolitical allies (same party)Other kinds of donors
small donors$2.2Mlarge donors$4.6Motherpoliticians$397Kcompanies$148Kpolitical allies(same party)$112KOther kinds ofdonors$144K$7.7M raised
$2,220,1671Small individual donors
$4,611,6521Large individual donors

Abdul El-Sayed

Where the campaign money came from2

small donorslarge donors
small donors$4.1Mlarge donors$10.3M$14.5M raised
$4,142,6262Small individual donors
$10,265,4322Large individual donors

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Mike Rogers

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Abdul El-Sayed

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Sources

  1. FEC · 2026 cycle used in: Money
  2. FEC · 2026 cycle used in: Money
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Mike Rogers
Candidate A

Mike Rogers

RepublicanShown above

No verified background on file for this candidate.

🚩 No federal record yet. Campaign money: $7.7M raised, 60% from large donors, 10% from organized interests. Group amounts exceed the filed PAC total. These sources do not reconcile; no complete split or remainder is claimed.
Filed PAC total: $787,227.09 (10% of $7,681,045.75 raised), 2026 cycle.
Named group amounts (not a complete filed split): $800,621.00, Group filing cutoff unavailable. Group source

Sources

1 The money: FEC · 2026 cycle

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Douglas P. Marsh
Candidate B

Douglas P. Marsh

Green

No verified background on file for this candidate.

We don't have campaign money records for this race yet.

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Lydia Christensen
Candidate C

Lydia Christensen

Libertarian

No verified background on file for this candidate.

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Abdul El-Sayed
Candidate D

Abdul El-Sayed

DemocratShown above

No verified background on file for this candidate.

🚩 No federal record yet. Campaign money: $14.5M raised, 71% from large donors, 0% from organized interests. Group breakdown unavailable. The filed PAC total is known, but its givers have not been identified here.
Filed PAC total: $71,845.23 (0% of $14,479,903.29 raised), 2026 cycle. Group source

Sources

1 The money: FEC · 2026 cycle

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Candidate E

Tim Long

U.S. Taxpayers Party

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Candidate F

Walter P. Kristy

Natural Law Party

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