Gretchen Whitmer: “The America that my kids are growing up in, it looks very…”

“It is. And when you see that, the kind of public sentiment, that kind of an acceptance of this, and I think that's what's so scary to me. The America that my kids are growing up in, it looks very different than the one that I did. Their whole existence has been this, you know, two parties that the violent rhetoric and the ugliness has become normalized for them. And I can tell them it's not normal.” (00:28–00:35)

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