Democrats are putting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan on the national stage Tuesday to rebut President Donald Trump, elevating a fresh face and casting an election-year spotlight on a swing state in the Midwest as the party looks to win back states Trump narrowly captured. The 48-year-old’s ascendance
LANSING, Mich. — Democrats are putting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan on the national stage Tuesday to rebut President Donald Trump, elevating a fresh face and casting an election-year spotlight on a swing state in the Midwest as the party looks to win back states Trump narrowly captured.
Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod, a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, said “it's hard to imagine a better person” to counter Trump. Story continuesShe was an outspoken advocate for women before the 2017 Women's Marches and #MeToo era, publicly disclosing during a 2013 legislative debate on health insurance coverage for abortions that she had been raped in college.
“I think she has some strength in the middle,” said Dan Loepp, a friend of Whitmer’s who first met her more than 25 years ago when he was a top legislative aide and she was a staffer. Now the president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield — following Whitmer's father — Loepp called Whitmer a “reasonable progressive" — someone whom national Democratic leaders that he knows see as articulate, smart and deliberate.
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