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Gretchen Whitmer: “I was one of the first people to call it out when the shots…”

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Published | Video Starts at 04:59

It's never acceptable. It's not acceptable when I am the target of it. It's not acceptable when Donald Trump is the target of it. I was one of the first people to call it out when the shots rang out in Pennsylvania because it doesn't matter who the target is. None of us should ever say that this is acceptable. And so to Excuse it, I think sets a really dangerous precedent that I have very great concerns going forward about. (04:59–05:08)

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Asserts that she was among the first to condemn violence when shots were fired in Pennsylvania.

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