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The Michigan governor tried to play nice with Trump. Instead, there’s a sense in the party that she got played when the president used her as a bipartisan Oval Office prop.
From NBC News
“We’re honored to have Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan, great state of Michigan, and she’s been, she’s really done an excellent job, very good person,” Trump said.
From CNN
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer called tariffs a “blunt tool” that could cost her state jobs and companies if deployed recklessly.
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