President Trump offered a compliment to Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer during a stop at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in her state on Tuesday.

“For decades, they’ve been trying to save this facility … including your governor, who has done a very good job. She came to see me. That’s the reason she came to see me, by the way, to save Selfridge. She was very effective,” Trump said in remarks before the Michigan National Guard, announcing new fighter jets for the base.

Trump's rare praise for a Democrat came just a couple of weeks after Whitmer took heat from both sides of the aisle for a White House visit earlier this month, her second since the inauguration. One of the........

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