Gretchen Whitmer Quotes

Donald Trump is kind of a riverboat gamble. He won the Illinois primary; in this case, we have seen the Republican vote up and the Democratic vote down, so it looks like it's a net benefit.

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

I don't in any way think the American people rejected the Republican Party, or we'd be in a lot worse shape than we are.

There is no reason why the right Democratic nominee can't win Ohio. President Obama did it twice in 2008 and 2012.

A lot of people think I'm crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.

Many people think that Puerto Rico would be a Democratic state just by virtue of the inclination of the Latino population in the United States, but the reality is that I see Puerto Rico as a battleground state.

Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.

When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.

The undecideds could go one way or the other.

I hear you're losing Ohio, but we're doing fine in Pennsylvania.

You're losing in Ohio, but, don't worry, we're winning in Pennsylvania.

The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic state.

The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections.

American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.

As a longtime political operative, I know firsthand how a vote here or a vote there can make a huge difference in a close election.

As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

I believe in the two-party system.

Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help.

Florida has been, and will continue to be, a swing state.