A candidate’s refusal to answer a question is itself an answer.
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When a candidate refuses to answer a simple question, it almost always means that they are hiding something. The candidate is trying to deceive voters.
The Mike Rogers Senate campaign in Michigan has been the most Trump-like in the entire country in two respects. Rogers is trying to get elected based on bigotry, and he is attempting to hide his own weaknesses in plain sight by making the election about his opponent.
However, Rogers was put on the spot by Kristen Welker on Meet The Press when asked him a question that should have been easy for a Republican who was asked by Trump to run to answer.
Welker asked Rogers, “Do you consider yourself to be a MAGA Republican?”
Mike Rogers knows that Trump is toxic to voters not in the base, but he also knows that he is a MAGA Republican, so he tried not answering the question by changing the subject to his opponent, “Listen, I’m going to tell you something, this is — I get you guys on the national press, but this is a little bit disgusting to me. You know what you don’t cover? The chairman of the Democrat Party just came out and said he cannot — the former chairman, sorry, he cannot vote for Abdul. This current senator’s Finance chairman –”