James Blanchard

Well, and Detroit is critical to Democrats statewide.

And go back to John Engler and Jim Blanchard.

Jim Blanchard was a popular governor in re-election.

I, and I don't know what the spending ratio was, but I guarantee Blanchard was outspending Engler.

And you remember the famous Detroit Free Press poll the day before the election that had Blanchard winning by double digits.

So, you know, there was that old musical on Broadway once upon a time called Blame Canada, and he's gone ahead and done it.

I, I can't think of anything more stupid as, uh, Jim Blanchard, a former governor of, of Michigan and former ambassador to Canada, uh, pointed out, uh, this morning, uh, on your network.

Uh, you know, 90% of, uh, Americans have no [laughs] problem with Canada, love Canada, and, and don't grasp what Trump's getting at.

I think, uh, what it's showing is that this man is really past his sell-by date.

And for generations, that partnership became one of the defining relationships of the modern world, until now.

And it was best summed up by James Blanchard, a former US ambassador to Canada.

Well, today I'd say relations US-Canada are the worst in modern history, without a doubt.

And it's largely because of the president and his people who feed him misinformation.

I think a lot of it was circumstantial.

with Jim Blanchard as governor for eight years that Frank Kelly was attorney general.

He did seek one higher office, and that was the U.S. Senate.

Back in 1972, in the middle of one of his many four-year terms, he ran for the U.S. Senate against the incumbent Republican Senator Bob Griffin, but Griffin beat him.

These tariffs, uh, and this, these, uh, bizarre back and forth between Canada and the US that has only hurt Michigan jobs, has only driven up costs in Michigan, requires a governor who knows how to not just stand up to the President of the United States, as I've done as Secretary of State, but also is prepared, as I am, to negotiate sub-national agreements, essentially carve-outs between our neighbors in Canada and Michigan, that will ensure we are developing ways to go around these reckless federal policies and lower costs for Michiganders with the very direct line that we have between Michigan and Canada.

Uh, I'm proud to, uh, have consulted with a former ambassador to Canada, who's also just, uh, also the former governor of Michigan, Jim Blanchard, and others who are working already to develop what will be these carve-outs, these sub-national agreements that will protect Michigan's economy even as these reckless tariffs at the federal level that my opponent has voted to support continue to wreak havoc on our economy.

Secretary Benson, good morning.

Sometimes tariffs are talked about in kind of abstract, broad policy terms.