Leading Republican Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers unveiled a new video series inspired by a beloved reality TV show aimed at addressing the cost of living — widely considered the top issue of the 2026 midterm elections — the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
The first entry in Rogers’s “Let’s Get to Work!” series released Monday and first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF), features the candidate performing various tasks at a family-run dairy farm in the western part of the state’s Lower Peninsula. The Rogers campaign said the series — which will continue throughout the hotly contested Senate race — is an homage to the Discovery Channel show “Dirty Jobs.” It also aims to show how everyday Michiganders would benefit from the GOP-backed Working Families Tax Cut Act, also known as the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).
Rogers is endorsed by President Donald Trump and faces effectively no serious opposition in the Republican primary. The non-partisan Cook Political Report rates the Michigan Senate race — an open seat contest due to the retirement of incumbent Democratic Sen. Gary Peters — as a “toss up.” The contest is widely considered one of the best opportunities for the GOP to flip a Senate seat in November.
The first “Let’s Get to Work!” video shows Rogers at Green Pastures Farms in Coopersville, Mich., where he meets Jesse and Betsy Meerman. They tell him the property has been in their family since the 1880s, but the lofty federal estate tax, commonly known as the “death tax,” has made this difficult in recent years.
“It’s not easy to send the farm over to the next generation,” Jesse Meerman tells Rogers in the video. “So, really, what Uncle Sam has done is said, ‘My condolences on the death of your father. … Pay me $5 million cash now.’”
“I happen to believe we shouldn’t have that anyway, specifically on agriculture. We want that to be perpetuated in families,” the Republican candidate replies. He also adds in the video that the OBBBA, which Trump signed July 4, 2025, “raised the exemption for the death tax.”
