{"id":246822,"date":"2026-05-28T20:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246822\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:18:10","slug":"michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer-will-not-run-for-president-in-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246822\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Will Not Run for President in 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, one of the country\u2019s highest-profile Democrats<\/a>, told a local journalist on Thursday that she would not seek the presidency in two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a robust group of people running for president,\u201d Ms. Whitmer told a reporter for Detroit\u2019s WJBK-TV<\/a>. \u201cI will not be one of them in 2028. I can tell you that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Whitmer cultivated a national following during her two terms leading Michigan, a closely divided swing state where she maintains high approval ratings. She was often listed among the Democrats likeliest to run for president, and she was on Joseph R. Biden Jr.\u2019s shortlist for a running mate in 2020.<\/p>\n

During President Trump\u2019s first term, Ms. Whitmer was an outspoken critic of his administration. She gave the Democratic response to his State of the Union speech<\/a> in 2020 and railed against his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She has taken a different approach since Mr. Trump returned to the White House, visiting the Oval Office and seeking areas of agreement. Though she still issues statements criticizing many of the president\u2019s policies, she has done so in less personal terms than other high-profile Democratic governors.<\/p>\n

Ms. Whitmer has argued that her approach has helped Michigan, even as it has drawn criticism from some fellow Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, one of the country\u2019s highest-profile Democrats, told a local journalist on Thursday that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[651,1452,85671,96439,9730,9,11,10,1671,87608,1069,85670],"class_list":["post-246822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-democratic-party","tag-donald-j","tag-gretchen","tag-mackinac-island-mich","tag-michigan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics-and-government","tag-presidential-election-of-2028","tag-trump","tag-whitmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}