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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Charts a ‘Pragmatic-Progressive’ Course

Democrats, led by Whitmer, are in control for the first time in 40 years

‘I don’t pick fights, but I also don’t shy away from them,’ says two-term Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat.

By Ben Kesling

| Photographs by Emily Elconin for The Wall Street Journal

May 27, 2023 9:00 am ET

LANSING, Mich.—Gretchen Whitmer spent years toiling as a state legislator in the minority party. Now that the second-term governor is atop a government controlled by fellow Democrats, she is a woman in a hurry.

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