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<p>For most of the Republicans running for president in 2024, their goal is to bring the GOP—and the country—into the post-Trump era.</p>
<p>But one longshot hopeful is poised to try something else: contending for the White House almost as if Trump had never happened.</p>
<p>Mike Rogers, the former seven-term Michigan congressman who left office months before <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-to-us-i-am-rich-hire-me">Trump launched his campaign in 2015</a>, shares the relentless optimism and consummate politeness of a different Mr. Rogers—not the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-literally-lists-all-his-grievances-in-post-arraignment-speech-from-florida-club-mar-a-lago">fire-and-brimstone rhetoric</a> of contemporary GOP politicians.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-longshot-republican-michigan-rep-mike-rogers-running-for-president-like-donald-trump-doesnt-exist">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/AP
For most of the Republicans running for president in 2024, their goal is to bring the GOP—and the country—into the post-Trump era.
But one longshot hopeful is poised to try something else: contending for the White House almost as if Trump had never happened.
Mike Rogers, the former seven-term Michigan congressman who left office months before Trump launched his campaign in 2015, shares the relentless optimism and consummate politeness of a different Mr. Rogers—not the fire-and-brimstone rhetoric of contemporary GOP politicians.
