With a newly-elected Democratic-majority legislature, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer seeks to enact sweeping new gun-control legislation that was previously not possible under a Republican-led House and Senate.
“It’s new territory for a lot of people,” Whitmer told Bridge Michigan. “I’m excited about what I think we’re going to get done.”
The incumbent governor won re-election to a second term after defeating her Republican challenger, conservative political commentator Tudor Dixon, by a vote margin of 10.6 percent.
All 110 seats in Michigan were up for election in 2022. Prior to the midterm elections, the Great Lakes State had a divided government, with Democrats controlling the governorship and Republicans controlling both chambers of the state legislature….