Whitmer won’t go ‘punch for punch’ with Republican who called her a witch

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Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, will not go punch for punch" with Republican leaders in the state who have attacked her in misogynistic terms, one going so far as to call Whitmer and two other leading Democrats three witches" set to be burned at the stake".

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