Why Gretchen Whitmer’s Senate Endorsement Matters
“We don’t hold this seat, we can’t fight back against Medicaid cuts. We can’t fight back against tariffs, against skyrocketing gas and grocery prices. We can’t fight back against the chaos and division and political gamesmanship that have consumed our country for too long.”Join Bulwark+ with a 14-day free trialThat argument cut right to the heart of the question that for many Michigan Democrats is the most important: Which candidate has the best chance of winning?
- ▪“We don’t hold this seat, we can’t fight back against Medicaid cuts.
- ▪We can’t fight back against tariffs, against skyrocketing gas and grocery prices.
- ▪We can’t fight back against the chaos and division and political gamesmanship that have consumed our country for too long.”Join Bulwark+ with a 14-day free trialThat argument cut right to the heart of the question that for many Michigan Dem
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The BreakdownWhy Gretchen Whitmer’s Senate Endorsement MattersIt reinforces Haley Stevens’s message in Michigan—but also confirms something Abdul El-Sayed has been saying.Jonathan Cohn26 July∙ Paid(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Getty, Shutterstock)Detroit, MichiganANOTHER JOLT JUST HIT the highest-profile Democratic Senate primary in the country: Big Gretch entered the conversation.That’s the affectionate nickname for Gretchen Whitmer, the two-term Democratic governor who is by most reckonings the most popular statewide elected official in Michigan.
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