“Because I just got reelected governor,” she replied, half-smirking. “So, you’re not running for president,” I said. Whitmer seems to genuinely enjoy being a politician, even the ridiculous and absurd parts of it, such as this. She didn’t bother with the annoyance that many ambitious pols feel compelled to feign- it’s such a hassle-when asked whether they might give the ol’ presidency a look. Love her!Ĭlearly, though, Whitmer was happy to go through the Kabuki of being interrogated over whether she might change her mind. She 100 percent supports Joe Biden, who is great and vigorous and all of that-and not too old, definitely not too old. No, of course she is not running for president, Whitmer told me. We met here on a recent evening for an interview in which I would ask her-on the record-several variants of the above “running for president” question. “I know!” agreed Whitmer, who wore a camouflage sweatshirt with Michigangster scripted across the front. Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, sat cross-legged on the couch of a darkened TV studio in East Lansing, where a local PBS program called Off the Record is taped-a weird name for an interview show watched by 100,000 people. Why doesn’t Gretchen Whitmer just run for president? Or at least humor the suggestion?
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