# Trump's treatment of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 29, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-treatment-of-michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer/850587 "2020-03-29T14:40:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-treatment-of-michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer/850587/61 "2020-03-31T21:32:11Z")

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How well your state is doing is largely based on whether the governor is a Republican, or Democrat.

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> A new study finds that the single factor that best explains the speed of state-level reaction is its governor’s partisan identity. “States with Republican governors and Republican electorates delayed each social distancing measure by an average of 2.70 days,” the authors find, “a far larger effect than any other factor, including state income per capita, the percentage of neighboring states with mandates, or even confirmed cases in state.”

> **[The Coronavirus and Conservatism’s War on Science](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/coronavirus-trump-war-science-richard-epstein-neil-ferguson.html)**
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> Richard Epstein isn’t the only right-winger to dismiss epidemiology.

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**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-treatment-of-michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer/850587/62 "2020-04-01T13:32:25Z")

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I wonder if all this visibility makes Whitmer a more likely VP candidate. People need to see governors calling Trump on his miserable (lack of) leadership.

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