The AP Interview: Whitmer has 'no interest in going to DC'

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In an interview with The Associated Press just over a week after winning a second term, Whitmer insisted she's “never had interest in going to D.C.” and said she'll “be here for four more years.” Whitmer didn't explicitly rule out running for president at some point in the future. The governor said she’d been approached in the past about running for Congress, or other federal offices, but said "anyone whose familiar with my career” knows that “I've never been interested in going to DC. Michigan has had “an outsized role in national elections and a voice and I think that’s a good thing,'' Whitmer said. Whitmer said the threat against her was downplayed relative to the arrested last summer of someone near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home and “perhaps gender plays into that.” The suspect in that case "turned himself in and it was covered as an assassination plot,” she said.