Fighter with a ‘fresh face’: What Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could bring as Biden’s VP pick – By Valerie Block (CNBC) / June 13 2020
- Beyond delivering Michigan, Gov. Whitmer, a 48-year old mother of two, would add youth to the 77-year old former vice president’s campaign.
- “She’s a fresh face,” said Doug Sosnik, a Democratic strategist and former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton.
- He added that her status as a Washington outsider, unlike Biden’s, is a selling point. “What the country is looking for solution wise is not in Washington,” he said.
Joe Biden is seeking a woman to be his 2020 running mate, and Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer is on the shortlist.
The first-term governor is a rising star in the Democratic Party whose convincing 2018 congressional victories brought the rust-belt swing state back into the blue column for the first time in eight years.
Democrats believe Michigan is a must win for presumptive nominee Biden and having Whitmer on the ticket could deliver the state.
Beyond delivering Michigan, Whitmer, a 48-year-old mother of two, would add youth to the 77-year old former vice president’s campaign.
“She’s a fresh face,” said Doug Sosnik, a Democratic strategist and former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton. He added that her status as a Washington outsider, unlike Biden’s, is a selling point. “What the country is looking for solution wise is not in Washington,” he said.
The U.S. is currently going through remarkable upheaval. It is struggling to recover from a triple threat of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a crushing economic downturn brought on by efforts to slow the spread of the disease and civil unrest over the death of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, at the hands of Minneapolis police.
The nation is even more polarized than it was in 2016, when Donald Trump, a political novice and ultimate Washington outsider, was elected in a surprising electoral college victory over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton – the only female presidential nominee in U.S. history.
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