Gretchen Whitmer: “In my first term, I had a polar vortex to navigate three…”

“When I was writing this book, you know, I wrote it because the question that I got more often than not when I was running for reelection was, why on earth do you want to keep doing this? In my first term, I had a polar vortex to navigate three weeks into the job. and I. I know. I'm here. You've got your own series of weather events to deal with. But we had a convergence of three storms, and it was negative 55 degrees out.” (04:38–04:43)

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