The Michigan governor says the vice president should focus on fundamental issues and keep listening to people.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has given Vice President Kamala Harris advice on how to win in her battleground state.
She told Harris to focus on fundamental issues like abortion and reproductive rights and „make a seat at the table for people who maybe aren’t traditionally sitting at that table.“
Michigan is one of several swing states that could determine the outcome of November’s election. Donald Trump narrowly won the state in 2016, but President Joe Biden won in 2020 by just 154,000 votes.
Speaking on the 9 to 5ish with theSkimm podcast on Wednesday, Whitmer said: „One of the things that I think is so crucial is, like I said, seeing the humanity in people—showing up, listening, empowering voices. When we have reproductive rights hanging by a thread in this country, it is so crucial that we are uplifting women’s voices and medical voices as well—in this debate.
„This next election is going to have profound consequences for all of us, but especially for younger voters, especially for those of us who thought some of these rights had been enshrined in law, [but] are now very much at risk.
„Now, one third of women live in a state where they don’t have the ability to make their own decisions about their body and their healthcare.
