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Whitmer Defends Trip To Florida Despite Travel Warning: ‘I Wasn’t Partying In Miami!’

Emily Zanotti
Whitmer Defends Trip To Florida Despite Travel Warning: ‘I Wasn’t Partying In Miami!’
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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer fired back at critics who are calling her hypocritical for traveling to Florida to visit her ailing father while instructing Michigan residents to avoid travel, particularly to the Sunshine State.

Speaking to The Washington Post’s podcast, she called the response “saddening,” and blasted reports that she’d spent time in Florida, although she confirmed that she did, indeed, leave Michigan, the state that is currently the epicenter of the nation’s COVID-19 pandemic.

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