{"id":1551189,"date":"2022-07-12T17:19:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T21:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1551189"},"modified":"2022-07-12T17:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T21:19:59","slug":"in-first-re-election-tv-ad-gretchen-whitmer-admits-the-last-few-years-have-been-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-first-re-election-tv-ad-gretchen-whitmer-admits-the-last-few-years-have-been-tough\/","title":{"rendered":"In First Re-Election TV Ad, Gretchen Whitmer Admits \u2018The Last Few Years Have Been Tough\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fin-first-re-election-tv-ad-gretchen-whitmer-admits-the-last-few-years-have-been-tough%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=1551189&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--><p>Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/gretchen-whitmer\">Gretchen Whitmer<\/a> (D-MI) revealed her first re-election television commercial Tuesday, focusing on family struggles such as childcare and education while admitting \u201cthe last few years have been tough\u201d for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/michigan\">Michigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer\u2019s ad hits the airwaves three weeks before the state\u2019s primary elections, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/these-5-gop-gubernatorial-candidates-made-the-ballot-in-a-chaotic-michigan-primary-now-theyre-vying-for-a-chance-to-unseat-gretchen-whitmer\">five GOP gubernatorial candidates<\/a> will be on the ballot for a chance to face off against the first-term governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last few years have been tough, but we\u2019re tougher and getting things done right now,\u201d Whitmer says in the spot titled \u201cFamily.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Whitmer touts her administration as \u201cmaking childcare more affordable\u201d and \u201cmaking it a priority to get kids back in class\u201d following the COVID pandemic. The ad also flashes a figure showing that 98% of school districts in the state have returned to in-person learning.<\/p>\n<p>On March 12, 2020, shortly after the onset of the pandemic, Whitmer ordered schools to suspend in-person education for the remainder of the academic year, as the Detroit News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/07\/12\/gov-gretchen-whitmer-releases-first-tv-ad-reelection-campaign\/10033827002\/\">reported<\/a>. Many schools in the state continued with virtual learning during the 2020-2021 school year, and the governor\u2019s administration did not begin pressuring them to return to in-person learning until January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Republican Party spokesman Gustavo Portela took issue with Whitmer\u2019s claims in the ad, telling the Detroit News, \u201cShe closed down schools, she shuttered small businesses and the reason we\u2019re in the mess we\u2019re in is partly because of her. Voters will see past her deception and will vote her out of office this fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer\u2019s office has not responded to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican gubernatorial race has been heating up as five candidates jockey for a chance to face off against Whitmer. The most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/governor\/Michigan.html\">polling<\/a> shows former businesswoman and political commentator Tudor Dixon leading the field of GOP candidates by 11 points with 26% support.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon\u2019s good polling performance comes after endorsements from the influential DeVos family, Michigan Right to Life, former Michigan Governor John Engler (R), and Reps. Lisa McClain (R-MI) and Bill Huizenga (R-MI), among others.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Kelley, who is set to face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michigan-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-appears-in-federal-court-pleads-not-guilty-to-january-6-charges\">trial<\/a> in the coming months for charges related to his presence at the January 6 Capitol riot, came in second in the same MIRS\/Mitchell Research poll at 15%. Businessman Kevin Rinke and chiropractor Garrett Soldano were tied for third at 13%, while Pastor Ralph Rebandt came in last at 1%.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan primary election will be held on August 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) revealed her first re-election television commercial Tuesday, focusing on family struggles such as childcare and education while admitting \u201cthe last few years have been tough\u201d for Michigan. Whitmer\u2019s ad hits the airwaves three weeks before the state\u2019s primary elections, where five GOP gubernatorial candidates will be on the ballot for a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1551317,"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-1551189","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\/1551189","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1551317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}