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Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is unsubtly trying to appeal to Generation-Z voters on behalf of the Kamala Harris campaign.
Live, laugh, elect @KamalaHarris. pic.twitter.com/uuf0tIp3XQ
— Gretchen Whitmer (@gretchenwhitmer) September 23, 2024
The sitting governor — who claims to be “Swifty AF” — took time out of her busy schedule to call voters, in her words “rizzing them up”, in a new campaign ad. In what seems to be an attempt at youth outreach, she claims that her iced coffee drink “slaps hella”, that a house party “slayed”, and that Trump’s jobs plan is “not chill”.
Photogenic Democrats have done well in the past with social media clips. But Whitmer, who is 53, sounds a bit less like AOC and a bit more like Hillary Clinton, who was famously “just chillin’ in Cedar Rapids” and urging the youths to “Pokemon Go to the polls” shortly before losing the 2016 election. It’s giving cringe…
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