Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) pushed back on the idea that Vice President Harris’s running mate must be a white man and called concerns over an all-female presidential ticket “baloney,” in an interview Monday on “CBS Mornings.”
“I don’t agree with that,” said Whitmer, a co-chair of the Harris campaign, when asked about the idea that Harris must pick a white man to join her ticket.
Whitmer drew on her experience running in Michigan as evidence against that argument.
“I’ll tell you this,” Whitmer continued.
“In Michigan, myself, my secretary of state, my attorney general — all the chief executives in Michigan — are women, and every one of us was told there may be too many women on the ticket. Baloney. We’ve proved that wrong in the swingiest of swing states.”
The interview comes as anticipation builds ahead of Harris’s expected announcement of her running mate, which Whitmer said in the same interview she expects will happen within the next six or seven days.
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@BagelsBennyDemocrat2yrs2Y
As opposed to what? Hogwash? A sausage fest?
@eXecutiveStorkDemocrat2yrs2Y
Best part of Whitmer's response is when she focuses attention on the seriousness of the danger of Trump & MAGA and moves away from the media's latest lazy fixation of one word (weird...two weeks ago it was unity) catch phrases.
@Pl4tformCraneRepublican2yrs2Y
Nobody said it had anything to do with gender. It has to do with the fact that Kamala Harris is a disaster. She’s a communist and a liar.
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