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Gretchen Whitmer: “I never imagined when I ran for governor was that I would…”

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Published January 28, 2025 | Video Starts at 06:18

… don't do very well right now in our politics and maybe in our everyday life and communities at every level. In the book. You know, one of the things that I never imagined when I ran for governor was that I would run on a tagline of fix the damn roads. If you just said that's what you're gonna run on, I'd have thought you were out of your mind. (06:18–06:25)

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Asserts that her campaign unexpectedly focused on infrastructure, specifically road repair.

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