Trump won Georgia and Michigan in 2016. Biden did the same in 2020. In 2024, some disillusioned voters say they wish Govs. Whitmer of Michigan and Kemp of Georgia were on the ballot instead.
President Biden hugs Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at the NAACP Detroit branch Fight for Freedom Fund dinner in Detroit on May 19, 2024.
“I love Big Gretch,” she says, referring to a nickname for the second-term Democrat popularized by many Detroiters. Stanley says she would send Whitmer to the White House without hesitation.It is a sentiment echoed by voters in Georgia about that state’s governor. At the Wills Park Pool in“He kind of stood up to political pressures to throw the election in Trump’s favor in 2020, so I gained a lot of respect for him at that point,” Conner says. “So overall, I’m a Kemp fan, yeah.
From a shady bench near the farmers market in Rochester’s quaint downtown, Nancy Lockhart praised Gov. Whitmer for helping enshrine abortion rights, passing gun safety laws after a deadly school shooting a few towns over and navigating the pandemic.Kerry Webster, a voter who says she voted for Trump in 2020 but isn't sure she will again in 2024, poses for a photo at the Wills Park Pool in Alpharetta, Ga.
Gerald Ford’s presidential library is in the district Glanville recently flipped. As she knocks on doors for her campaign this year, Glanville says it feels like Democratic priorities are resonating, such as making college more affordable and protecting the Great Lakes. She says for many voters, especially women, reproductive rights, health care and abortion are weighing heavily on their minds.
“In my race, I’m focusing on the issues here in Georgia,” Reeves says. “And I want to make sure that people know that regardless of what they think of the presidential race, that I’m a reliable, consistent person who’s on call to take care of those issues here in Georgia.”
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