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.
If Alpharetta had a sister city in Michigan, it might be Rochester, a well-off Detroit suburb that once voted reliably Republican, but has shifted in the Trump era. “We have a lot of folks who still refer to themselves as Gerry Ford Republicans,” Glanville says. “They tend to be very pragmatic. West Michigan is proud of their values.”
Deanna McKay says she has decided to sit out voting in the presidential race after watching last month's debate. McKay poses for a photo at the Wills Park Pool in Alpharetta, Ga.In Georgia, just a few seats are toss ups. Republican State Rep. Matt Reeves represents one of them. It’s a suburban Atlanta district that narrowly went for Biden in 2020 and then Kemp in 2022.
“I’m not looking in the rear-view mirror,” Kemp said in the red-carpeted spin room. “I’ve said all along I’m going to support our nominee. I’m doing that. We had a lot of great candidates that ran, but he’s at the top of our ticket. He wants to win Georgia and I want to win Georgia, too.”Some of the most fervent Trump supporters soured on Kemp for spurning the president’s pressure to intervene after Biden’s upset victory in Georgia.
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