LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Conservative political commentator and businesswoman Tudor Dixon introduced Wednesday that she won’t be working for governor or U.S. Senate in 2026.
Dixon beforehand ran for governor in 2022, the place she earned the Republican nomination for the workplace with working mate and former state consultant Shane Hernandez. She misplaced to incumbent Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer and her working mate Garlin Gilchrist by almost 11 share factors.
FILE – Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon seems at a main election celebration in Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 2, 2022. (AP Photograph/Paul Sancya, File)
In response to an announcement from Dixon obtained by 6 Information, she elected to not run attributable to what she known as the “positive effects” that Trump administration insurance policies are having on the nation. Dixon says she desires to deal with “protecting and advancing these policies,” and thus, won’t run.
“President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are saving America. From securing the border at rapid speed and removing dangerous criminal illegal aliens from our communities, to bringing manufacturing jobs home and lowering taxes, President Trump’s America First policies are already having positive effects for Americans.”My focus is defending and advancing these insurance policies, and as such, I can’t be a candidate for the Republican nomination for Michigan governor or U.S. Senate in 2026.”I will continue traveling our great state to support Trump policies and the candidates authentically embracing them. President Trump’s drive to save our country and be the voice for working people is remarkable. I want to do my part to ensure his America First policies are cornerstones beyond 2028.”However first, it’s important that Michigan Republicans win in 2026. Gretchen Whitmer has been a catastrophe for our state. Jocelyn Benson, a conniving profession far-left agitator, will probably be harmful and infinitely worse. Michigan voters should fireplace her and, with the suitable different, they’ll.”I have met countless Michiganders from Macomb to Menominee to Muskegon over the last four years who care about saving our state and I will be fighting right beside them.”
Tudor Dixon assertion on candidacy, July 9, 2025
The Michigan Democratic Occasion responded to Dixon’s announcement:
“Tudor Dixon might not be on the poll subsequent 12 months, however she’s lately launched broadsides at each John James and Tom Leonard, and she is going to proceed to affect Michigan Republicans and push them to stake out probably the most excessive positions doable,” stated Michigan Democratic Occasion Chair Curtis Hertel.
Hertel says Dixon lately “went on the attack” in opposition to gubernatorial candidates John James and Tom Leonard, saying that Leonard is a lobbyist who should not run for workplace attributable to a battle of curiosity, and that James leaving the Home and working for governor will probably be a “nightmare.”
Within the meantime, present candidates for Michigan governor embrace:
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson
Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II
Former Michigan Legal professional Common Mike Cox
Minority Chief of the Michigan Senate Aric Nesbitt (R-20)
Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan
U.S. Consultant John James (MI-10)
Former mayor of Cape Coral, Florida Marni Sawicki
Michigan Military Nationwide Guard veteran Evan House
Former U.S. Home of Representatives candidate Anthony Hudson
Former Speaker of the Michigan Home of Representatives Tom Leonard
Candidates for U.S. Senate in Michigan embrace:
Former Wayne County Well being Director Abdul El-Sayed
Former U.S. Consultant and 2024 U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers
State Senator Mallory McMorrow (D-8)
Dr. Kent Benham, a dentist from Deerfield
U.S. Consultant Haley Stevens (MI-11)
Engineer and welder Fred Heurtebise
State Consultant and former Home Speaker Joe Tate (D-9)
U.S. Military Nationwide Guard veteran Rachel Howard
Genevieve Scott
Lydia Christensen
Craig Henley Johnson
