Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally at Michigan State University on Nov. 7, in East Lansing, Mich.

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally at Michigan State University on Nov. 7, in East Lansing, Mich.

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DETROIT – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, has gained a second time period for the highest political job within the battleground state, in line with a race name by The Associated Press.

The state of the economic system is all the time an enormous concern within the industrial Midwest, however abortion rights and Whitmer’s deployment of lockdowns through the COVID-19 pandemic additionally performed a job within the marketing campaign.

Whitmer beat political novice Tudor Dixon within the Republican nominee’s first run for public workplace. Dixon was greatest referred to as a commentator on conservative information networks previous to profitable the Republican nomination in a crowded GOP major.

Whitmer is an enormous supporter of abortion rights and has gone to court docket to dam a 1931 Michigan abortion ban from taking impact, incomes her a nationwide following.