Fox News host Lara Trump introduced five people on Saturday night as a "bipartisan" panel of Michigan voters. Mediaite reports that four of the five had worked with Mike Rogers' Senate campaign or a group backing him, and that none of it was on screen. Here is what is documented, what is secondhand, and what Fox has not said.
What did Fox's segment actually show?
The segment aired Oct. 31 on My View with Lara Trump, according to Mediaite's report as syndicated on Yahoo. The five guests were labeled on screen only as "Michigan voters" and billed as bipartisan. I could not find a full transcript or the video itself, and Mediaite's own page blocked my fetch, so the on-air wording here comes from that report and from Political Wire's summary of it. Treat the word "bipartisan" as reported, not as something I heard.
Mediaite says the ties were first flagged by the left-leaning outlet MeidasTouch and then confirmed by Mediaite. That matters for how much weight to give it: the starting point is a partisan outlet, but the individual facts below are public appearances that can each be checked.
Who were the five, and what are their ties?
Per the Mediaite report, Karen Whitsett is a former Democratic state senator and the treasurer of Together for Michigan, a pro-Rogers super PAC. On the show she said Rogers was not her "number one pick." Chelsea Rebeck calls herself a lifelong Democrat, appeared on stage with Rogers at an Aug. 20 press event, and said she is voting for him. Rabbi Asher Lopatin attended the same Aug. 20 event and reportedly took leave from his job to campaign for Rogers.
Mark Gjokaj spoke at a Rogers event on Sept. 23 and is an elected Republican precinct delegate in Macomb County. The fifth guest, YouTuber Anton Daniels, has no direct campaign link in the report. He has right-leaning commentary and recently spoke in favor of Rogers on NewsNation. So the accurate count is four with documented campaign or PAC ties, and a fifth who is openly pro-Rogers.
What the report says, and what it does not
Mediaite (via Yahoo), Nov. 1, 2026. I read this through a syndicated copy, not the original page.
Panel billed as "bipartisan," guests labeled on screen only as "Michigan voters."
No Fox News statement about the undisclosed ties is included in the report.
Is "bipartisan" wrong, or just incomplete?
Both labels can be technically true. Whitsett, Rebeck and Lopatin are described as Democrats or Democratic-aligned, and Gjokaj is a Republican. A panel can include people of both parties and still all favor one candidate. The gap is that viewers were not told these were Rogers supporters with campaign roles, and a voter panel invites viewers to read it as an unprompted sample.
Mediaite adds that Fox's own earlier reporting mentioned Lopatin's appearance at the Aug. 20 event. That suggests the information was not hidden inside Fox, though it did not appear in this segment, based on the report.
Lara Trump, host of My View, in a 2025 photo. U.S. Department of Education via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Cropped.
What is Together for Michigan, and who funds it?
The Bulwark, a Trump-critical outlet, reports the group started as "Democrats for Mike Rogers" and later rebranded. It names Whitsett as treasurer and lists its biggest donor as GLCF, Inc., a super PAC "dedicated to supporting conservatives," at $50,000, followed by $25,000 from American Unity PAC, which describes itself as focused on Republican candidates. The Bulwark's list of individual donors is short.
The size of its spending is reported differently depending on the source. The Mediaite report, as summarized above, says the PAC has spent over $4 million supporting Rogers. A Legis1 breakdown of the same group's filings, published Oct. 23, puts about $5.67 million in outside spending at $4.16 million opposing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and $1.52 million supporting Rogers. That site cites FEC committee ID C00960138 and I did not pull the filings myself, so check the FEC record before repeating either figure.
Does this tell you how Michigan will vote?
No. Five hand-picked guests say nothing about the electorate, and that applies to any network's panel, left or right. The practical lesson for Tuesday is narrower: when a cable segment calls someone a "voter," ask whether the network says how they were chosen and whether they work for a side.
Fox has not, in anything I could find, commented on the segment. If it does, this post should be updated. For now, the documented facts are the guests' public Rogers appearances, and the open question is why none of it appeared on screen.
Header photo: the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, 2024. Photo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
