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Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer is on CNN now. In an interview on Monday with CBS, Whitmer said that she has not been vetted by Harris’s office and expects Harris to announce her pick within the week, which would confirm the Democratic ticket at least two weeks before the Democratic national convention begins on 19 August in Chicago.
She has reiterated that now – she has not been vetted and will not be the pick. She says, instead, that she will be Harris’s “best friend” on the ground.
