And on a fateful day, my team and I were traveling through the city of Baghdad. You have to understand that just getting around the region as Americans at this point was incredibly dangerous.
We were told to stay in the middle lane of the highway, to keep as much of a distance between us and the explosive devices that lined the roads as possible. The terrorists were always waiting for their opportunity to attack.
Suddenly — it happened.
I can still remember what it was like to have my head spinning, with my ears ringing and surrounded by smoke.
When I finally realized what happened, I was incredibly grateful to have made it out alive, as others in the car next to us were not as lucky.
After this incident, my husband often jokes that when there’s a bump in the night at home, he sends me to check things out and make sure we are safe.
But the truth is that my husband, Mike Rogers, is the strongest, most courageous, and honorable man I’ve ever known.
It takes guts to get back into politics these days — especially with the folks on the other side gearing up to spend tens of millions of dollars to lie about you and your family in the name of scoring cheap political points.
As a young man, Mike fought cancer and worked two jobs — one on the floor of an automotive factory, and one in security — just to put himself through college.
My husband is an Army veteran, former FBI agent, and even chaired the House Intelligence Committee in the tough days after 9/11.
He also has been taking the fight to Communist China — going so far as to break from his fellow Republicans to blow the whistle on the threats that the CCP poses.
It just doesn’t get any tougher than that.
Mike is the kind of man that does what is right, no matter the personal consequence.
And he is the kind of man that is deserving of your support. Because with Mike in the Senate, you can know that there is someone in your corner, fighting for you and preserving our great American values.
