{"id":1208904,"date":"2022-01-11T17:05:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208904"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:05:33","slug":"poll-just-40-percent-of-michigan-voters-would-reelect-whitmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-just-40-percent-of-michigan-voters-would-reelect-whitmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Just 40 Percent of Michigan Voters Would Reelect Whitmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-just-40-percent-of-michigan-voters-would-reelect-whitmer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208904&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">48 percent say state is on the &#8216;wrong track&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1013359810-736x500-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/GettyImages-1013359810-e1641933641745.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/GettyImages-1013359810-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/GettyImages-1013359810-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/GettyImages-1013359810-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/GettyImages-1013359810-722x491.jpg 722w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tMichigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D.) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/cole-carnick\/\" title=\"Posts by Cole Carnick\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Cole Carnick<\/a> \u2022 January 11, 2022 4:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Just 40 percent of Michiganders would vote to reelect Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer, according to a new poll.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-two percent of likely voters said they would back another candidate, and 12 percent said their decision depends on who runs against the governor, according to a <em>Detroit News<\/em>\/WDIV poll. And while 56 percent said they approve of Whitmer&#8217;s job performance, 48 percent of respondents said the state is on the &#8220;wrong track,&#8221; compared with 36 percent who said it is on the &#8220;right track.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The survey results present a mixed bag for Whitmer, who is seeking reelection in 2022. The Michigan GOP said the poll shows the Democratic governor is in a &#8220;dead heat&#8221; with Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While Whitmer is ridin&#8217; with Biden playing national politics, this poll clearly shows she&#8217;s about to get a reality check here at home, where in a dead heat, a plurality of voters would pick someone else to be governor,&#8221; Republican communications director Gustavo Portela said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer&#8217;s approval rating increased 6 points since November, when it dropped to 48 percent. Richard Czuba, president of the Michigan-based Glengariff Group, which conducted the poll, said Whitmer&#8217;s recent shift to the middle on COVID policy helps explain her rise in popularity. The pollster believes, however, that the &#8220;race is going to tighten and be close because of the national environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Whitmer campaign &#8220;can&#8217;t make this assumption that they&#8217;re going to just coast,&#8221; Czuba told the <em>News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer faced widespread criticism early in the pandemic for her COVID restrictions, which <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/weed-up-hoes-down-in-whitmers-michigan\/\">shuttered<\/a> &#8220;nonessential&#8221; businesses and restricted travel within the state. Amid the latest spike in cases, Whitmer has forgone statewide vaccine mandates\u2014a policy President Joe Biden has promoted through executive order. Biden&#8217;s approval rating among Michigan voters is 43 percent, according to the poll.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats 48 percent say state is on the &#8216;wrong track&#8217;  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D.) \/ Getty Images  Cole Carnick \u2022 January 11, 2022 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}