LANSING, Mich. – President Donald Trump's allies are trying to contain a politically risky election-year fight with Michigan Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer as he struggles to balance presidential politics with a global pandemic in one of the nation's most important swing states.
Both sides have tried to de-escalate the feud this week, although Trump's supporters in particular sought to downplay tensions that ratcheted up over the weekend when the Republican president unleashed a social media broadside against Whitmer, a Democrat who had been critical of the federal government's response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Trump has clashed with other Democratic governors as well, but he saved his most aggressive insults for the first-term female governor