Gretchen Whitmer: “During the pandemic, I had a Republican legislature…”

“… platforms who are willing to use them to stoke hate and violence against people that they just politically don't agree with. I think it's a real danger to our democracy. During the pandemic, I had a Republican legislature, overwhelmingly Republican. It was before we fixed gerrymandering in Michigan, and they worked pretty well with me until the former president singled me out. And then everything changed on the ground in Michigan.” (14:58–15:04)

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