Two governors — Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan — are among those thought to be on Joe Biden's vice presidential shortlist. The two have risen in prominence for their recent handling of crises on multiple fronts.
, saying"'Half' Whitmer ... doesn't have a clue." And later, as the death toll in Michigan mounted, Trump said he told Vice President Pence to ignore governors who don't show enough appreciation."Don't call the woman in Michigan," he said from the White House briefing room.The back and forth thrust Whitmer — a former Michigan Senate minority leader who has only been leading her state since early 2019 — into the national spotlight.
Lujan Grisham was New Mexico's health secretary before three terms in Congress, where she was chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and then became governor in 2019. "In my wildest dreams I would not be spending my own specific time finding testing supplies, and the right manufacturers, getting swabs and then chasing PPE," she recently toldThe dynamic was unprecedented, said Kathleen Sebelius, the former Kansas governor who was secretary of health and human services under former President Barack Obama and was vetted for the vice presidency in 2008.
"Because it shows they're doing things," he said."They care. They're taking action. They're not sitting around abdicating responsibility and finding someone to blame."
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