Reporter: “Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer also spoke at Sunday’s event and according to the Harris-Walz campaign, aims to show the potential impacts if Trump becomes president. Whitmer says that could include a nationwide abortion ban and restricted access to birth control.”
Governor Whitmer: “Are we going to have an economy where every person can get ahead? Or where decisions are made just to benefit the few that are already way ahead? You know. We need people who get it, who live lives like ours. And that’s Harris and Walz.”
WKOW (ABC – Madison):
Reporter: “Michigan’s governor Gretchen Whitmer visited Waukesha to promote the Harris-Walz campaign’s Fighting for Reproductive Freedom Bus Tour. The tour set to make at least 50 stops in key battleground states before November’s election, really to advocate for reproductive rights.”
WMTV (NBC – Madison):
Reporter: “Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer spoke in Waukesha yesterday, rallying support for the Harris-Walz ticket and focusing on reproductive freedom and the economy.”
WBAY (ABC – Green Bay):
Reporter: “Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer campaigned for Kamala Harris in Waukesha as a part of the Harris-Walz campaign’s ‘Fighting for Reproductive Freedom Bus Tour’. Governor Whitmer, alongside Democratic Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett, talked about Wisconsin’s abortion bans, and the impacts a Trump presidency could have on a different procedure.”
Online:
Green Bay Press-Gazette: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer campaigns for Democrats in Green Bay, calls out GOP silence on subject
[Jesse Lin, 9/28/24]
Whitmer hardly needed a microphone to make herself heard, arguing in green Vega sneakers, green jeans, and a “Kamala for Everybody” T-shirt, that on an issue important to people of all political stripes, “We have to choose between Harris who would codify Roe. v. Wade or the guy who took it away.”
She asked the crowd to close their eyes. There were two questions that she wanted people to raise their hands to. The first, who knows someone who’s had an abortion? The second, who knows someone who’s used in-vitro fertilization?
She didn’t have to get to the second question before nearly all 100 hands — some wrinkled, some smooth — were raised. After the second question, some raised both hands.
“It’s maddening that we have to bare our souls to get attention on this issue,” Whitmer said. “because young women now have less rights than I’ve had my whole life,” the 53-year-old governor said, of which Roe v. Wade was the law of the land for 49 of those years.
WLUK (FOX – Green Bay): Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer speaks in Green Bay
[Marlo Lundak, 9/28/24]
“Wisconsin and Michigan are so similar and our two states are going to decide the outcome of this election, and so that’s why I wanted to be here, rally people around reproductive freedom. It is very much at risk in this upcoming election and it’s nice to see so many enthusiastic supporters for Kamala Harris but we don’t take anyone or any vote for granted and that’s why we’re talking to Republicans and Independents alike, because this is one of those issues that every one of us is going to be impacted by,” Gov. Whitmer told reporters Saturday.
[…]
For those who missed Saturday’s event, Whitmer says she wants people to know there’s a seat for everyone at the table.
“Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have lived lives like ours, like mine like yours, like Wisconsinites and Michiganders alike, they”ve worked hourly jobs, they’ve taken care of family members whether its end of life or beginning of life. They understand what our lives are like. Donald Trump doesn’t get us, he doesn’t know us, he’s never lived a life like ours and I think that’s a real thing that sets the candidates apart.”
Watertown/Menomonee Falls Daily Times: Reproductive freedom bus tour campaigns in SE Wisconsin
The Reproductive Freedom tour, featuring Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and reproductive rights advocate Kate Cox, stopped in Waukesha County.
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“I’m grateful that I am pregnant and that I have that opportunity, she said. “That’s why I feel so strongly about speaking out, and about supporting Vice President Harris.”
“I share my story because I think it’s important to share what’s at stake for this election,” Cox said. “If we don’t vote in Vice President Harris, women in all 50 states could go through the nightmare I went through.”
WKOW: Michigan Gov. Whitmer visits Waukesha, joins Harris-Walz bus tour
[Lucas Kihmm, 9/29/24]
Politicians and community members gathered at UW-Milwaukee at Waukesha to rally alongside Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and support the Democrats campaign against abortion restriction.
Whitmer’s visit Sunday to Wisconsin was to promote the “Fighting for Reproductive Freedom” bus tour.
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“[Harris] believes that reproductive health care decisions belong to us, women and our doctors, not politicians.”
WISN: Michigan governor rallies Waukesha voters ahead of presidential election
[Duke Carter, 9/29/24]
Political leaders are rallying Wisconsinites to fight against abortion bans.
“We need our reproductive rights so that we can be safe,” said Laurel Marcinkus, a speaker at an event UWM-Waukesha on Sunday.
Marcinkus, from Kenosha, spoke as a part of the Harris-Walz campaign’s “Fighting for Reproductive Freedom Bus Tour.”
Marcinkus was pregnant last year and shared how difficult it was to get medical care after learning about a blood clot that caused her to go into early labor.
“But because of the legal questions and risks of lawsuits, two different doctors needed to be consulted before I could receive care. Meaning that for an entire day, I continued to bleed,” Marcinkus said.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also spoke at Sunday’s event.
According to the Harris-Walz campaign, Whitmer aims to show the potential impacts if Donald Trump becomes president.
