The Full Whitmer
The 49th governor of Michigan swings from one phone call to another for hours on end these days as she tries, from a safe social distance, to guide her state through a catastrophe that was beyond most Americans’ wildest imagination until just a few weeks ago. Thrust into the national spotlight by both the pandemic and the president’s barbs about her pleas for more federal assistance, Democrat Gretchen Whitmer explains to Newsweek’s Steve Friess how she’s feeling and what she’s thinking as she leads her state through the crisis with a combination of grace, grit and humor she says she learned from her late mother.
