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I know people who live in rural Michigan and you'd think she was the literal devil by the way some talk about her. They never usually elaborate after saying 'this place has gone to shit because of her'.
She seems like an upgrade to the old senile dudes running my state.
She's a real cool cat :)
Edits: Also her name reminds me of the girl from Recess so that's alright as well
Edit: Canada's positive influence rubs off on border States perhaps...
She’s the party’s leader and top talent in the Midwest. Good bench for the dems.. "Big Gretch" probably looks good on a bumper sticker.
I think the redistricting in 2020 helped more than abortion but I think both have been a real positive.
Yep, plus mail-in voting. Michigan is a lot bluer than people think.
Big Gretch for President. I've been to her home a few times and she's always taken the time to engage in conversation as a down to earth person.
She's always been a wonderful conversationalist, person, and is a politician that genuinely cares about making peoples' lives better.
She has my vote when she decides to run.
This is good to hear. I’ve heard she’s very much a politician first, actual person second from people who knew her, but that’s all secondhand.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Minutes into her speech, Democrat Gretchen Whitmer tossed aside her prepared remarks and revealed for the first time publicly that she had been raped while attending college.
Whitmer recalled the hundreds of calls and emails she received after her 2013 speech as a turning point for her, the moment when she realized how much people care about protecting a woman’s right to choose whether she should have an abortion.
It’s a lesson she hopes to drive home all over the country as one of the nation’s leading abortion rights advocates during what could prove to be a pivotal election year for the issue in 2024.
When constitutional questions about abortion rights appeared on the ballot, even voters in Republican-leaning states from Kansas to Ohio rejected GOP-backed efforts to curb them.
Michigan was a critical component of the so-called blue wall of states, including Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, that Biden returned to the Democratic column, helping him win the White House in 2020.
Whitmer, who is co-chair of Biden’s reelection campaign and has herself been frequently mentioned as a future presidential candidate, deflected questions Monday about his chances in Michigan, insisting that she was only going to “focus on reproductive rights today.”
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