Democratic Candidate for Michigan Governor to Pick Detroit Activist as Running Mate

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer will name Detroit political activist Garlin Gilchrist II as her running mate on Monday morning, the Free Press has learned. While the Whitmer campaign didn't confirm the choice, sources told the Free Press that Gilchrist, the former director of Innovation & Emerging Technology for the city of Detroit, will join the ticket at a 9:30 a.m. announcement in Lansing. It will come five days before both the Republican and Democratic parties hold their summer conventions to officially nominate candidates for lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state Supreme Court, state Board of Education and the boards governing University of Michigan and Michigan State and Wayne State universities.