Gretchen Whitmer is warning in a new fundraising letter that the Democrat faces a 2022 challenge from Republican Betsy DeVos, who served as U.S. education secretary under former President Trump. The letter seems designed to maximize donations to the Whitmer campaign, Simon Schuster, executive director of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network, told the Free Press. Nate Bailey, a DeVos spokesman, told the Free Press the former education chief "hasn’t said word one" about entering the 2022 race. Deeper in the Whitmer letter, the Democrat’s campaign appears to acknowledge that a DeVos challenge is only hypothetical at this point, the Free Press notes. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"The question is," Dick DeVos added, according to the Free Press, "if she’s interested in being governor.

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