Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is staying by President Joe Biden’s side, and despite growing concerns over Biden’s age and mental acuity, Whitmer said she has complete confidence in his candidacy. “He has the receipts. He's delivered, whether it's onshoring supply chains or bringing down the cost of insulin, protecting a woman's right to make her own decisions about her body.
These are the fundamentals that I know are weighing on voters all across the country,” she told NPR. But the governor, who is a co-chair of Biden’s re-election campaign, did not definitively say that Biden is the best candidate to defeat former president Donald Trump in November. “Our choices on the ballot right now are President Biden and former President Trump.
And that is the binary choice in front of us,” she said, when pressed on the question. “I am an enthusiastic supporter of President Biden's, and I'm going to work my tail off to make sure he gets a second term.” Whitmer rose to national prominence for her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic — and her name has been floated as a possible Biden replacement, should he withdraw his candidacy.
However, she said she is “very, very supportive of his reelection,” noting that her party is fortunate to have “a deep bench of great Democratic talent.” In the midst of all this, Whitmer is out with a new book True Gretch: What I’ve Learned about Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between . In it, she shares stories from her lif.