MI-10: Army veteran Bouchard (R) makes long-awaited entrance into key Detroit-area GOP primary

Washington — Mike Bouchard, an Army paratrooper and son of the Oakland County sheriff of the same name, is joining the GOP primary race for a key suburban Detroit congressional seat up for grabs next year.

Bouchard is launching his bid Thursday, 12 days after returning to Michigan from a nine-month deployment to Iraq.

"I truly believe we need leaders, we need fighters and we need veterans in D.C. to stand up to a lot of the socialist, woke waves that we're seeing right now," the Rochester Hills Republican told The Detroit News ahead of his campaign announcement.

He added: "The toughest people I know jump out of planes into battle, and so I think we need to send a paratrooper to D.C."



https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/06/army-veteran-mike-bouchard-congress-macomb-oakland-counties-robert-lulgjuraj-republican-primary/87111704007/