Gretchen Whitmer doesn’t seem to be heading towards her dreams of VP stardom…
After extending and tightening her COVID-19 “stay-home” order in Michigan, many residents and critics are shredding the unpopular governor for her extreme rhetoric.
Her orders in Michigan had surely prevented many families from seeing each other on Easter and have prevented people from buying children’s car seats after being labeled “un-essential.”
Why does she get to determine what the people in her state deem essential?
For example, there are many residents who can’t plant gardens for springtime, which is certainly affecting many Michigander’s vegetable gardens that they eat from year-round.
But no, Gretchen Whitmer would much rather only big, government-subsidized farms should be providing vegetable produce to all of us.
It’s decisions like these that now have Detroit’s largest newspaper and a large number of residents voicing their frustrations, which could definitely have an adverse reaction on her plans to become Biden’s top Vice President choice.
Less than a week ago, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was featured in glowing and lengthy articles touting her political acumen and talking up her chances of being tapped as Joe Biden’s running mate.
But scrutiny over her response to the coronavirus outbreak in Michigan reflects the perils of hyping potential vice presidential candidates before they’re full vetted.
Whitmer was, until the weekend, at or near the top of female Democrats said to be under consideration by Biden, the former two-term vice president, 36-year Delaware senator, and now the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee. That was even as Whitmer, 48, endorsed his campaign well after Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a former 2020 rival, and others who he is also currently considering.
Whitmer, elected to the Michigan governorship after 14 years as a state legislator, seemed like a natural choice for Biden. A fresh face on the national scene from a swing state with executive experience who seemed ideologically in-line with Biden’s brand of center-left politics.
But Whitmer now faces criticism over her coronavirus response, to the point that an online Change.org petition demanding the state hold a recall election has received nearly 154,000 signatures. Complaints range from allegations she has politicized the crisis through her rhetoric against President Trump to overreaching orders that critics say banned the sale of gardening supplies and child car seats.
An editorial in the Detroit News, one of the state’s largest newspapers, questioned whether she was “acting in the best interests of this state, or on behalf of the Democratic Party.”
“Unfortunately she’s sending conflicting signals about her priorities and motivations,” the editorial read. [Washington Examiner]
Yikes…
You know things have to be pretty bad in Michigan for a liberal city like Detroit to publish a story criticizing Whitmer like that.
Her numbers will surely start tanking in the polls very soon.
This piece was written by Sophie O’Hara on April 13, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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