8th CD candidate and former state Sen. Roger Roth says he doesn’t see running against a Donald Trump-endorsed candidate as a barrier to his campaign.
“No, not at all, not at all. You know at the end of the day, there’s nothing Trump loves more than a winner and we’re going to win on August 13,” Roth said in a WisPolitics-WisconsinEye interview.
Roth is running in a primary against state Sen. André Jacque, R-De Pere, and Trump-endorsed businessman Tony Wied to succeed former U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Allouez.
Roth praised Trump’s choice of U.S. Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his running mate, calling him a “really good pick.”
“When you look at Donald Trump and where he’s taken the Republican Party, we are the party of the working man and woman and we are the blue-collar party,” Roth said. “And when you look at JD Vance and what he has done, he won a Senate race in Ohio, which is part of the Rust Belt, so are we, here in the upper Midwest region.”
Roth said his first reaction to the assassination attempt against Trump over the weekend was “unbelief.”
“The American people, they expect us to have civil discourse, they expect us to, you know, have those civil disagreements, but they don’t want civil war,” Roth said.
He said Trump has the opportunity when he speaks at the RNC this week to show how his policies will unify and bring the country together.
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