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Gretchen Whitmer: “I am going to fix the damn roads.”

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Published May 18, 2026 | Video Starts at 04:28

It's what feeds the ugliness and negativity that we see every day that people feel let down and lied to. So I'd rather under promise tell someone, all right, I am going to fix the damn roads. And you did. And we did. 20,000 took a long time. 20,000 miles lanes or whatever. I mean, yeah, crazy number, a couple thousand bridges. (04:28–04:31)

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Asserts a commitment to infrastructure improvement, specifically road repair.

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