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→Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
===2018 election===
===2018 election===
Former state senator [[Gretchen Whitmer]], the [[Democrat]] nominee in the 2018 Michigan gubernatorial election, selected Gilchrist to be her running mate for [[lieutenant governor]].<ref>[https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/20/garlin-gilchrist-gretchen-whitmer-running-mate/1040401002/ Who is Garlin Gilchrist? Facts about Gretchen Whitmer's running mate]</ref> The pair won the general election with 53.3% of the vote.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/michigan-governor?mtrref=duckduckgo.com&gwh=9B99839774724706ACF79E69E067E6B6&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL Michigan Governor Election Results 2018]</ref>
Former state senator [[Gretchen Whitmer]], the [[Democrat]] nominee in the 2018 Michigan gubernatorial election, selected Gilchrist to be her running mate for [[lieutenant governor]].<ref>[https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/20/garlin-gilchrist-gretchen-whitmer-running-mate/1040401002/ Who is Garlin Gilchrist? Facts about Gretchen Whitmer's running mate]</ref> The pair won the general election with 53.3% of the vote.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/michigan-governor?mtrref=duckduckgo.com&gwh=9B99839774724706ACF79E69E067E6B6&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL Michigan Governor Election Results 2018]</ref>
===Chinese Communist ties===
Garlin Gilchrist attended a controversial “collaboration summit” between [[Chinese Communist Party]] officials and U.S. Governors.
The summit, which occurred in May of 2019, was touted as an “exclusive deal making opportunity” for closer financial ties between the Chinese government and their U.S. counterparts.
The summit featured “one-on-one meetings” between the U.S. and their Chinese Communist Party counterparts, and, at the time, was met with harsh criticism from the Trump administration for its “ties to Beijing’s overseas propaganda wing – the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFCC), which co-hosted the conference.”
Its parent organization, China General Chamber of Commerce, also features a host of executives from controversial Chinese Communist Party-linked companies on its board such as Huawei, China Telecom, China Mobile, and Inspur Group. All of the aforementioned firms have been identified by the [[U.S. Department of Defense]] as proxies for the [[People's Liberation Army|Chinese military]] for over two decades.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/michigan-gov-ccp-conference/</ref>
===Tenure===
===Tenure===