Today Pod Squad Squad we are very excited because we have with us right smack in the

middle of an historic Democratic National Convention during which Vice President

Kamala Harris will officially accept the nomination for President of the United States.

Big Gretsch!

Whoa!

The badass governor of Michigan, Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Thank you for being here.

We're going to introduce you, even though you need no introduction.

Governor Gretchen Whitmore rose to national prominence during COVID for her leadership in saving lives

and calling out Trump for having no national response to the pandemic, which got under his skin and

earned her the nickname, That Woman from Michigan.

Later that year, a domestic terrorist cell developed an elaborate plan to kidnap and kill her a plot that was

foiled by the FBI and state police. Governor Whitmer, who's the mother of two daughters, first ran for office at the

age of 29 and has never lost an election.

Rapper G. Mack Cash wrote a song about her called Big Gretsch.

True Gretsch, which was an instant New York Times bestseller and is an awesome read, is her first book.

Welcome, Governor, thank you for coming here.

Thank you.

I'm so glad to be with you all.

So Governor Wittmer, you were a state senator in Michigan when the Michigan Senate was voting

on a particularly callous anti-abortion bill. Can you tell us about what happened that day on that floor on the

day of the vote? Absolutely. So in 2013, December 11th to exact, I can tell you that because it was my grandma,

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