Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is not interested in running for president – ever – she said Tuesday.
National media have repeatedly mentioned Whitmer as a possible Democratic presidential candidate in 2024, should President Joe Biden not seek a second term. That talk intensified after the Nov. 8 midterm elections, in which Whitmer won reelection by double digits and led a Democratic ticket that also swept the other two top statewide offices and flipped both chambers of the Legislature from red to blue.
Whitmer has repeatedly said her focus is on serving Michigan as governor for the next four years.
But in a Tuesday interview with the Free Press in her Lansing office in the Romney Building, she went further than that. Asked to look beyond 2024, and whether she could ever see herself running for president, she replied: “I don’t foresee that.”
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