Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last week suggested she was relieved that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden didn’t choose her as his running mate. “There might have been a sigh of relief over here at the governor’s residence,” Whitmer told Fox Detroit. “I think everyone was pleased with the outcome, yes.” Whitmer revealed in May that she had a conversation about Biden’s search for a running mate, although she insisted she was focused on guiding Michigan through the COVID-19 pandemic. Recounting the moment she found out she was being considered, Whitmer said in the new interview that she was surprised. “This is the God’s honest truth: when he called and asked me to go through the process, I was shocked,” she said. Whitmer told The New York Times earlier this year, after Biden chose Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), that she called Biden’s team in May after two dams collapsed in Michigan and …
Whitmer Suggests She Was Relieved to Not Be Picked for Biden’s Running Mate
December 26, 2020
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