Michelle Martin

Becky, thank you.

The voices on NPR today include Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer.

The governor of a swing state told Steve that Democrats are expecting President Trump's administration to try to game the results in this fall's midterm elections.

In an NPR video interview, Whitmer asserted that Democrats are, quote, around the tabletop, unquote, gaming out different scenarios.

She said it is not paranoia to think that U.S.

troops could be told to play some role.

Steve also asked if the country is ready for a woman as president.

You can hear Steve's full interview with Governor Whitmer on our radio show Morning Edition.

Find it on your local NPR station or watch the video interview on the NPR app.

And that's Up First for Tuesday, January 20th.

I'm Michelle Martin.

Today's episode of Up First was edited by Dana Farrington.

Alfredo Carbajal, Russell Lewis, Mohamed El-Bardisi, Alice Wolfley.

It was produced by Ziad Butch, Ben Abrams, and Christopher Thomas.

We get engineering support from Nisha Hainas, our technical director is Carly Strange, and our supervising senior producer is Vince Pearson.

We hope you'll join us again tomorrow.

Minnesota is becoming the front line of resistance to federal immigration crackdowns.

I'm Michelle Martin, that's Steve Inskeep, and this is Up First from NPR News.

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