(This story has been updated because an earlier version contained an inaccuracy.)
GREEN BAY — Two members of the Michigan governor’s security detail delivered Gretchen Whitmer in a Chevrolet Suburban and Ford Expedition Saturday morning to the Brown County Democratic Party’s parking lot.
She brought along the national Democratic rhetoric on abortion that Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz have found does well with voters.
Abortion is not something Republicans in northeast Wisconsin seem eager to talk about.
The word “transgender” was featured often in the most recent Republican bus tour to Green Bay; “abortion” was not. The economy, immigration, and medical freedom were prominent in the area’s first Republican primary debate ; abortion was brought up by happenstance. The winner of the GOP primary in the 8th Congressional District, Tony Wied, sidestepped a question on abortion twice in Friday night’s debate with Democrat Kristin Lyerly.
Whitmer, next to Lyerly and two reproductive health advocates, called out Republicans’ wariness to take up the second most important issue to Wisconsinites this election cycle. A former lawyer, Whitmer argued that a second Trump administration would restrict women’s reproductive rights, something the former president has had trouble convincing many voters otherwise.