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Whitmer says she had 'opening conversation' about Biden VP pick
The Hill ^ | 5/19/20 | Max Greenwood

Posted on 05/19/2020 8:57:59 AM PDT by Libloather

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said on Tuesday that she has had an “opening conversation” with Joe Biden’s campaign about her potential as a running mate pick for the former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

In an interview on NBC’s “The Third Hour of Today,” Whitmer revealed that she has had a “conversation with some folks” about the running mate slot, but said that she did not see the discussion as particularly formal and is solely committed for the time being to her official duties as governor.

“It was just an opening conversation and it’s not something that I would call a professional, formalized vetting,” Whitmer told NBC’s Craig Melvin.

“I am making a little bit of time to stay connected to the campaign, but the most important thing that I have to do right now is be the governor of my home state. That’s all that matters to me in this moment.”

**SNIP**

Biden has offered little information as to who specifically he is considering, though he has said that he wants to choose a running mate that is “simpatico” with him. He is also said to particularly value political experience - a quality Whitmer certainly has from nearly two decades of public service in state and local government.

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To: Libloather

Good. The Michigan opponents of her lockdowns will relish campaigning in Michigan against her/for Trump.


21 posted on 05/19/2020 9:14:27 AM PDT by Wuli (Get)
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To: Libloather

I think that she is a great choice for the dimmanazis VP candidate. She inspires an almost universal hatred within the American electorate.


22 posted on 05/19/2020 9:15:37 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Sick and tired of the WuHu Flu Blues.)
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To: All

My wife asked if Democrats are trying to lose.


23 posted on 05/19/2020 9:18:46 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Libloather
Guv Witless isn't going anywhere.

Joe doesn't remember talking w her......

24 posted on 05/19/2020 9:18:49 AM PDT by G Larry (The People must shutdown the tyrants.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Abrams gets to complain for another four years, this time about how the VP job was stolen from her.

25 posted on 05/19/2020 9:19:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Libloather
I honestly don't know how anyone can have a “conversation” with Biden regarding the VP position.
26 posted on 05/19/2020 9:22:00 AM PDT by caww
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To: lee martell

Whitmer doesn’t pass the color test.


27 posted on 05/19/2020 9:23:31 AM PDT by caww
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To: Libloather

If she was the VP pick could she flip MI..and/or OH or IN?


28 posted on 05/19/2020 9:23:45 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: Libloather
an “opening conversation” with Joe Biden’s campaign

Trying to get their binder of potential women, probably at last 20 potentials, which will whittle down to 6, then 3 then 2 then 1. I think he chooses a senator, like a Patty Murray or some other stupid Dem.

29 posted on 05/19/2020 9:25:40 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Libloather

Sounds like a Babylon Bee title


30 posted on 05/19/2020 9:27:08 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: Libloather
maybe Michigan's only way to get out of Whitler's prison.

Looking at it another way we would be transferred from a Michigan county lockup to a federal prison. VP Witch Whitmer? NO.

With visibly worse dementia descending Prez Biden on the way to "I am resigning today...." She makes Hillary look like a pale version of Oprah. Ruthless, conniving, dishonest, self-absorbed, confident about taking away rights, a man hater. Well, maybe just like Hillary, suppose.

NO.

31 posted on 05/19/2020 9:27:29 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Libloather

Stacy Abrams will not be pleased.

32 posted on 05/19/2020 9:27:40 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Someone should do some photo-shop editing with a pic of Whitler and a poster for Ilsa - She-Wolf of the SS.
33 posted on 05/19/2020 9:28:36 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: Libloather

Plz select her, guarantees Michigan will be red


34 posted on 05/19/2020 9:28:38 AM PDT by italianquaker
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To: matthew fuller

Couldn’t agree more. In fact last night I was pondering who the RATs might pick if Slow Joe’s dementia can no longer be hidden from the low-info voters.

I immediately thought of Whitmer. Forget VP, she’s be a perfect RAT presidential candidate.

1.) She’s an angry leftist female, therefore a member of one of the RATs’ core grievance group.

If you’re a RAT, it doesn’t matter what your grievance is, just as long as you have a grievance that has corroded your mind and soul to the point you can longer process rational thought or Christian compassion.

2.) As one of the more conspicuously tyrannical governors, Whitmer represents to perfection the authoritarian values of today’s RAT party. As such, she serves as a warning to conservatives and freedom-loving independents. But her cruel nature will appeal to the masochistic RAT base, who are willing to undergo any amount of pain as long as they can push their particular grievances.


35 posted on 05/19/2020 9:29:52 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: Libloather

We Want Whitmer
We Want Whitmer
We Want Whitmer
We Want Whitmer.....


36 posted on 05/19/2020 9:30:31 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Welcf theome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: Libloather

“Hello, Biden campaign? Who do I have the pleasure of speaking with? Oh, the janitor, eh? Is there anyone else there? No, never has been either. Oh, I see. Well, then, you’ll have to do. I’m desperate to get out of Michigan by any means other than On A Rail! Can I be your Veep? Oh, I mean, can I be Biden’s Vice Presidential Candidate? Please? Pleeeeeeeeze!?? Michiganders are angry as Hell at me and frankly I don’t feel safe staying here. I will go anywhere to campaign for Biden or for anybody else, ANYONE, just help me get out of Lansing while I still can, PLEASE!???”

and so went Whitler’s “opening conversation with the Biden campaign”


37 posted on 05/19/2020 9:35:18 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Ann Archy

This woman, Gretchen Dearest, is TOXIC! She has a sort of reverse Midas touch, that is, anything golden, she turns back into common mundane things, of little value.

Yeah, Joe, go for it. But as a precondition, she must resign her current post as governor of Michigan.


38 posted on 05/19/2020 9:35:27 AM PDT by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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To: Libloather

He must be desperate to take Michigan if he’s looking at her.


39 posted on 05/19/2020 9:38:00 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Prayers up for Rush Limbaugh...)
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To: Libloather

Her won citizen want to run her out of the State on a rail! Maybe Grandpa Groper sniffed her hair and likes it!


40 posted on 05/19/2020 9:38:19 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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