Trump Just Might Turn
'The Woman From Michigan' Into Biden's Running Mate
President Trump has single-handedly thrust a mostly unknown politician into the spotlight — and she might just wind up being Joseph R. Biden’s running mate, bashing him relentlessly until Nov. 3.
And boom. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, hits the big time.
How big?
On March 5, her odds of being selected by Biden as his running mate were 33/1. By March 20, she’d risen to 16/1. On Tuesday, she was a 10/1 shot.Trump has continued to put Whitmer front and center in the race to join Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, on the ticket.
And the president is keeping up the heat. He later referred to her as “Gretchen ‘Half’ Whitmer” in a tweet and said she is “way in over her head,” “doesn’t have a clue” and “likes blaming everyone for her own ineptitude!”
But Trump is playing with fire.
Whitmer, 48, is barely known even within circles of political pundits and pollsters, but she’s seen by top power brokers as a rising star in the Democratic Party. A lawyer whose father was the president of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and whose mother was an assistant state attorney general, she’s real.
In 2016, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lost Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which voted for former President Barack Obama twice, and Biden will need to flip them back to the Democratic side to win in November.
But Whitmer’s addition to the ticket might just put Michigan, a state whose governorship she won by nearly 10 percentage points in 2018, into the D column.
While many have never heard of her, she was selected to give the official Democratic response to Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address, considered a big honor.
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