Gretchen Whitmer: “I heard over and over again, fix the damn roads.”

“Like, what do you need? What should a governor be focused on? And then I shut up and listen and I heard over and over again, fix the damn roads. Fix the damn roads. And it was like I was at the Detroit Children's Hospital, and I asked this woman who was there, her child was in the hospital.” (17:10–17:14)

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