Top Biden campaign officials have flagged
abortion rights as a top issue for the president, but Biden himself has been more restrained in talking about the issue than other Democrats.

The president, who is Catholic, has
described himself as personally not “big on abortion” because of his faith, but the landmark Roe v. Wade decision “got it right,” he said over the summer. Since then, he’s slammed court rulings limiting abortion access and fought efforts to restrict the availability of abortion pills.

Biden has been
poised to run on what has been described as the strongest abortion rights platform of any general election candidate as he and his allies look to notch a victory in the first presidential election since Roe was overturned in 2022.

But having Biden tout that message himself wouldn’t hurt, Whitmer said in the interview, which aired Sunday.

“I think people want to know that this is a president that is fighting. And I think he has said that, to use maybe more, you know, blunt language, maybe that would be helpful,” Whitmer said.