Why Gretchen Whitmer Has What It Takes for a White House Run

Aaron Rodgers Takes NYC • Melania Finds Zen • Mike Pence Has Epiphany [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( Why Gretchen Whitmer Has What It Takes for a White House Run Good morning from the Hive newsroom! As a Barack Obama White House veteran, and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign communications director, Jennifer Palmieri has seen what it takes to run for president. After trailing Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer for a week during her second term, Palmieri [reached]( a singular conclusion: Whitmer has what it takes. As for Whitmer, she’s fundraising for Joe Biden and the Democrats, for now. But she has said the country “is long overdue for a strong female chief executive.” In other news, Tom Kludt [finds]( Aaron Rodgers basking in his new life as a New Yorker. From attending a Taylor Swift show, the Tonys, to taking over the city’s tabloids, the quarterback “obviously is consciously wanting to be seen around town,” one sports commentator tells Kludt, adding that Rodgers’s star power means sports media will be descending on the Jets. In other news, Melania Trump seems extremely zen about the whole husband-possibly-ending-up-in-jail thing, Bess Levin [writes](. Thanks for reading! [Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer stands on a stage with a microphone in hand. She’s wearing a red blazer and a shirt that says “vote.”]( [Why Gretchen Whitmer Has What It Takes for a White House Run]( By [Jennifer Palmieri]( [I spent a week trailing the governor of Michigan as she pursued a bold second-term agenda—and left seeing a future presidential contender.]( [Read more button](   [Aaron Rodgers Is Making the Most of His New York Honeymoon: “He Understands How to Play the Media”]( By [Tom Kludt]( [From Taylor Swift to the Tonys, the city’s new superstar quarterback has been taking in the sights and taking over the tabloids. The Jets are suddenly a hot ticket: “It’s definitely going to be a circus.”]( [Read more button](   [Melania Trump Is Apparently in a Zen Place About Her Husband Potentially Going to Prison]( By [Bess Levin]( [She reportedly knows the evidence in the government’s documents case is “quite damaging.”]( [Read more button](   [Why CNN and MSNBC Didn’t Carry Trump’s Post-Arraignment Speech Live]( By [Charlotte Klein]( [“There is a cost to us as a news organization to knowingly broadcast untrue things,” Rachel Maddow told MSNBC viewers. Meanwhile, on Fox, a chyron referred to President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator.”]( [Read more button](   [Mike Pence Has Sudden Epiphany That Trump May Have Done Some Very Bad Things]( By [Caleb Ecarma]( [The former veep said he “cannot defend what is alleged” in the former president’s indictment, just a week after warning the DOJ against delivering charges.]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe](newsletter=vf) Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2023 Condé Nast