“I am proud to support Joe Biden as our nominee and I am behind him 100% in the fight to defeat Donald Trump,” Whitmer said in a statement.
, attempted Monday to tamp down on rumors she delivered a damning message to one of the president’s senior campaign officials: that he could not win Michigan following his
Whitmer also doubled down on the message in a post on X, writing: “Anyone who claims I would say that we can’t win Michigan is full of shit.”Whitmer reportedly called O’Malley Dillon Friday, after a day of frenzied speculation that she would be a frontrunner if Biden could be persuaded to quit. The second-term swing state governor, however, told Biden’s campaign chair that she “hated” her name being floated and that she was loyal to the president.
The loss of Michigan would represent a stunning blow after it firmly moved back into the Democratic column in 2020 and Whitmer scored a 10-point victory over her Republican rival in 2022 to gain her second term.
The book appears to have been written as an early shot at the 2028 nomination, which would have been perfectly timed for Whitmer: she is term limited and would leave office at the end of 2026, giving her a long run-in to the nomination process. But it would also be rocket fuel for a 2024 snap campaign.
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