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Four Midwest Governorship Elections 2026: Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio

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There will be four Midwest Governorships up for election this fall of 2026.

Three of these states—Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota—have Democratic Governors, while Ohio has a Republican Governor.

In Michigan, Governor Gretchen Whitmer is term limited, and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is favored to be the party nominee, with her likely Republican opponent being African American Congressman John James, who has lost two US Senate races in the past.

However, three term Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, elected as an Independent, is a “wild card” in the race, and could win the Governorship.

In Wisconsin, Governor Tony Evers has decided not to seek reelection, creating a race where former Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, who is African American, is the favored Democratic nominee against Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany.

In Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in 2024, belatedly decided not to seek reelection to a third term, and while the situation is fluid, it seems likely that Senator Amy Klobuchar will decide to run for Governor, with her Senate seat safe until 2030, were she to lose the Governorship.

Businessman Mike Lindell of MY PILLOW corporation, who has a reputation of being a lunatic, and continues to claim that Donald Trump won the Presidential Election in 2020, is perceived as the frontrunner for the Republicans, although Scott Jensen, who was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 2022, is considered to be planning to run again.

Finally, in Ohio, Republican Governor Mike DeWine is term limited, and the clearcut favorite for the party is tech businessman and 2024 Presidential contender Vivik Ramaswamy, who gained an arrogant, confrontational image, but now is trying to tone it down.

His Democratic opponent will be Physician and former Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton, who took a strong stand for vaccinations during the COVID 19 Pandemic, causing many critics to arise who condemned her approach to the once in a century health crisis.

At this point, it would seem that Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota are likely to remain Democratic in gubernatorial races, while Ohio, which has become more extreme right wing in recent elections, sadly, is likely to elect Republican Ramaswamy, who would immediately become a major nightmare figure in American politics!

Governorship Term Limits Likely To Affect Future Presidential Campaigns

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The American Presidency was limited in allowable terms of office by the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution in 1951, after passage by Congress in 1947, two years after Franklin D. Roosevelt, elected to a fourth term in the White House, died 82 days into that fourth term.

So even popular Presidents such as Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s, Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, and Barack Obama in the 2010s, could not have returned to the Presidency at any point after their two terms in office.

The issue of term limits also affects state governorships, as 23 states limit governors to two terms maximum consecutive terms. Three other states allow a return after one four year term away from the governorship, and one allows a return after two four year terms away from the governorship. And nine states have a lifetime limit of two terms.

So a total of 36 states limit gubernatorial terms in some form. And one state (Virginia) limits any governor to one term.

So only 13 states have no term limits, including Vermont and New Hampshire, which have terms of two years, not four years!

So when one analyzes these realities, it means governors such as the following, would have to be considered potential Presidential contenders in the future!

Ron DeSantis of Florida
Jared Polis of Colorado
Gavin Newsom of California
Brian Kemp of Georgia
Andy Beshear of Kentucky
Wes Moore of Maryland
Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan
Phil Murphy of New Jersey
Roy Cooper of North Carolina
Doub Burgum of North Dakota
Mike DeWine of Ohio
Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania
Kristi Noem of South Dakota
Glenn Youngkin of Virginia

All of the above 14, 6 Republicans and 8 Democrats, would be out of the governorship, or finishing a second term by the time of the Presidential Election of 2028.

Besides Republicans DeSantis and Burgum, who are already seeking the Presidency, there are strong rumors that other Republican Governors, Youngkin and Noem, might enter the race belatedly, and Kemp and DeWine are long shots for now or 2028!

And certainly, Democrats on this list are not running in 2024, due to Joe Biden, but certainly, it would seem likely that Polis, Newsom, Moore, Whitmer, Murphy, and Shapiro are all likely to plan to run in 2028. Less likely would be Beshear and Cooper, but being from states that Democrats have more difficulty winning, who can say they would not enter the race for President in 2028?

Second Wave Of COVID 19 Virus Is Coming, And Restrictions On Religious Services And Public Places MUST Be Enforced!

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A second wave of the CoronaVirus Pandemic is emerging, and yet we have Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, and a multitude of other Republican leaders refusing to face reality, and therefore, contributing to mass loss of life!

Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and other Democratic Governors, and some Republicans, including Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, are acting responsibly, and what Cuomo is mandating in New York is proper.

Orthodox Jewish synagogues are being informed of tight restrictions, along with other fanatically religious Catholics, that if they do not enforce limits, the fines are $15,000 per offense, and that is what is required, as public health and safety must rule over those who are claiming to be “religious” but are willing to see major loss of life with their crazy fanaticism. The same goes for all public places, including bars, gyms, restaurants, stadiums and other such places of public gatherings!

Religion can be controlled when it endangers public health and safety, and this is such a time, with the greatest health crisis in a century, affecting the entire planet!