Is Gretchen Whitmer interested in running for POTUS?

[CTyankee]

I think of her as a good prospect for our first woman president. She'll have to deal with brass knuckled Vance but he might repulse enough women and men to help us get our first woman president.

[SheilaAnn]

1. We already had the best two prospects for our first woman president. n/t

[CTyankee]

2. But is that some Dem consensus somewhere?

You may be right, but are there up and coming prospects? I remember when Obama became known, I hadn't heard much about him and he seemed to zoom up and caught everybody's attention. Why hasn't this happened with one of our women stars?

[SheilaAnn]

3. I think because they are women, sad to say. n/t

[Celerity]

4. Besides Vance, I expect Brian Kemp, Glenn Youngkin, and maybe Don Jr to be in the mix.

Sadly to say (as I myself am a mixed race black atheist married lesbian), I will not be supporting (in the Dem POTUS Primaries) any female, LGBTQ, non Christian, or POC candidates. Too risky IMHO.

[CTyankee]

5. If so, I would like to offer you Chris Murphy, my white, straight Democatic Senator from CT.

He is supportive of all our Democratic Party values. I like him a lot. Please give him a look!

[Celerity]

6. yes, Chris Murphy is deffo on my list of potential Dem candidates for 2028

https://www.instagram.com/hmdk/reel/DGVmNF8RFC3/

Murphy says he believes ‘the entire American political system is corrupted by money

’https://www.aol.com/murphy-says-believes-entire-american-235548822.html

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) discussed the influence of money on the political system in the U.S., implicating his own party in the corruption he said it causes. “I think the entire American political system is corrupted by money,” Murphy said on a Wednesday episode of the “Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know” podcast.

Murphy also told comedian Hasan Minhaj that his party isn’t exempt. “I think Democrats have been corrupted by money as well, much less than Republicans have been, [and] in a much less overt way, but I’d think it’d be silly to pretend as if Democrats, not everyone, but some Democrats … ultimately, are impacted by the fact that they’re spending a lot of time with donors.”

“But is that a real message, ‘Hey, we’re less corrupt than the other guys?’” Minhaj questioned. “No, you have … to show how you’re gonna fix the problem,” Murphy responded. In the wake of the 2024 elections, Murphy offered his thoughts on Democrats’ losses in a thread on the social platform X.

“We don’t listen enough; we tell people what’s good for them,” Murphy said at the time about the American left on social media. “And when progressives like [Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)] aggressively go after the elites that hold people down, they are shunned as dangerous populists. Why? Maybe because true economic populism is bad for our high-income base,” he added.

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[WarGamer]

7. an outstanding choice.

[dalton99a]

12. +1. It is our ugly realty.

It is time for the Democratic Party to face that reality.

Focus on things that win elections.

[DFW]

8. Whitmer and Pete Buttigieg are both Michigan residents now

That precludes a ticket with both of them (unless Secretary Pete moves, since Whitmer is Governor and so can't). Rats!

Still, our bench is deep. Swalwell, Schiff, we have a wealth to choose from, and no moral obligation to anyone this time.

I would hope that by this time in 2026, we have a shining, irreproachable candidate we can unite behind, with no distracting sniping from the wings as we had in 2016 and 2020. That's a wish that probably won't come true, but I can dream, can't I?

[CTyankee]

9. What do you think about Chris Murphy?

I think paired with Whitmer would check two boxes, gender and geographical, but would be all white. As much as I respect my CT senator, I think we should be more racially diverse.

[DFW]

10. Frankly, I don't know much about him

He certainly seems solid enough, but I draw a blank when wondering about his foreign policy experience. I should probably read some more about him.

At the level of the national ticket, for me, I go color blind rather quickly. Competence and experience outshine race for me as a major factor. That goes for the Senate as well. In Georgia in 2022, if the Democrats had put up a white guy with Warnock’s qualifications, it would have been a no-brainer for me to support him over Herschel Walker, who was black, but totally unqualified to serve in the Senate.

For that matter, some diplomat at the UN remarked 25 years ago, when Bush and Gore seemed tied, that the job of president of the United States was far too important a position to be left to the American voters.

[CTyankee]

11. Oddly, he's a CT senator who is not a Yalie.

In the past we have loved going to home Yale games at the wonderful Yale Bowl here in New Haven and always asked at the gate to the parking lot who are the "notables" attending (usually some Senators or Reps or Cabinet folk) and the Bowl guards are aware of their presence. One of the Obama daughters was at one Harvard-Yale game and Paul McCartney was once there when we were (he had a grandson who was at Yale at the time). Alas, we didn't see them! It's a fun fact that a POTUS cannot attend as he/she could not be adequately protected.

[ZRB]

13. Let's just hand the Republicans the Presidency again

Why bother fielding a candidate? Our party will not be the one to break the glass ceiling, and we need to quit trying.