Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers suggested last month he lost his 2024 Senate bid after a “van showed up in Detroit with ballots” before the final count was over.

Rogers recounted the story during an Oct. 17 speech in Muskegon and an Oct. 7 event in Detroit, according to the Detroit News , which obtained and reviewed two videos of the remarks. During the Muskegon speech, he used air quotes to describe the ballots possessed by the alleged van.

Rogers, who is running for Senate again in 2028, did not substantiate his claims in the videos. A spokesperson for his campaign did not return a request for comment.

The former U.S. representative ran for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2024 but narrowly lost to Democratic U.S. Senate Elissa Slotkin by a vote difference of just 1

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