U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers’s newly announced student outreach team includes a member who complained about women in politics and another who defended a leaked Young Republicans group chat filled with praise for Hitler, gas chamber jokes, racial slurs, and rape comments.
This comes on top of the Republican’s earlier decision to surround himself with pastors and advisers who have long opposed LGBTQ+ rights and promoted false claims about election fraud.
Rogers, a former congressman and FBI agent, announced “Students for Mike Rogers” earlier this month. The campaign post listed Cameron Dundas of Northwestern Michigan College and Alexander Richmond, a University of Michigan student whose LinkedIn profile identified him as Rogers’s campus coordinator.
On X on Feb. 25, Dundas, who promoted his involvement with the group on Facebook the same day Rogers announced it, wrote, “Send them to North Korea?” in response to a post asking what should be done about “these people,” a comment that appeared to refer to Jews.
Dundas often cites far-right internet figure John Doyle, who has drawn criticism for his ties with antisemite and white nationalist Nick Fuentes and his Groyper movement, as well as for rhetoric that critics describe as misogynistic, racist, and anti-LGBTQ.
“Like Fuentes, Doyle seeks to appeal to young white men – whom he reportedly describes as ‘the forgotten gamers of America’ – with misogyny, paleoconservative politics and racialist pseudoscience,” the Southern Poverty Law Center writes.
After Donald Trump lost the election in 2020, Doyle spread misinformation and urged Pennsylvania lawmakers to disregard the results. His Twitter account at the time was suspended for violating the platform’s terms of service.
In 2022, Doyle said Martin Luther King Jr. getting “assassinated is like the best thing that could have happened to him,” claiming the civil rights icon was a bad man who is now beloved because he was killed.
Dundas also quoted Doyle approvingly while arguing women do not belong in politics. In a March 20 post on X, Dundas wrote, “This is what happens when you get women in politics, I mean it sort of devolves to this stuff,” attributing the remark to Doyle.
Dundas also repeatedly promoted Doyle online. In an Instagram story, Dundas said, “If you aren’t listening to The John Doyle Show your mind is a sandbox for the CIA.”
According to his LinkedIn page, Dundas attends Northwestern Michigan College, where he’s a Turning Point USA member, and is on the wrestling team at Davenport University. He also works at Teddy Bear Daycare & Preschool in Traverse City.
A person who answered the phone at the day care center hung up the phone when asked if she knew about Dundas’s controversial statements online.
Richmond, another Rogers student appointee, is tied to the fallout from a leaked Young Republicans group chat first reported by Politico in October 2025. The chat participants declared, “I love Hitler,” referred to Black people as “monkeys” and “the watermelon people,” mused about putting opponents in gas chambers, and called rape “epic.”
After the report was published, Richmond criticized those speaking out about the Young Republicans. “Loyalty is the only political virtue that matters,” he wrote on Facebook. “Performatively virtue signaling against your friends and colleagues will not save you from the wrath of those who hate you. They will continue to stick by each other’s side until the very end, and until we do the same, we will never win. Capitulation is for losers.”
That same day, Richmond suggested, without evidence, that Democrats are just as offensive.
“Imagine the Young Democrats’ private group chats were leaked,” Richmond wrote on Facebook. “Whatever they might say in private, just remember that they say the same vile things in public with no real repercussions. The difference is, their words actualize into violence.”
Rogers’s campaign doesn’t see what all the fuss is about and blamed Democrats, who had nothing to do with this story.
“Mike Rogers is running a campaign focused on jobs, safety, and affordability,” campaign spokeswoman Alyssa Brouillet said. “As it turns out, there are a lot of people across the state, with varying view points, who want to volunteer and support that mission. Maybe the Democrats would have better luck recruiting their own volunteers if they spent less time misconstruing posts to attack ours and more time campaigning themselves—but I won’t hold my breath.”
Metro Times could not reach Dundas or Richmond for comment.
