Political future of Gretchen Whitmer

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Loses reelection in 2022

I see no reason why a popular incumbent governor would be assumed to lose her re-election.

What makes you think she’s popular? Her proposed gas tax is absolutely hated in michagen and that’s putting it nicely

just looking at polls dude

But polls now =/= polls at the right time. Unless someone here is psychic, we have no way of knowing how popular she'll be in 3 years, so it's irrelevant to call her popular as a defense at this moment.

MI Govs seem destined to fail, much like Il and AK Govs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Michigan_gubernatorial_election


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Michigan_gubernatorial_election


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Michigan_gubernatorial_election

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

I’d still bet on her winning re-election, but MI Govs have historically left office unpopular—Snyder, Granholm, Engle, the dude Engler defeated in 1990. It’s ungovernable

Snyder left in one of the most baffling and damaging political scandals of the decade and Granholm ended her term in the depths of a recession which hit Michigan worse than most other states in the union. It's not something unique to the state.