After briefly talking about bipartisanship, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Republican challenger Tudor Dixon got down to the business of painting each other as power-hungry politicians.
The debate that could determine the fate of the Michigan governor’s mansion began with twin appeals to bipartisanship in a deeply divided state.Over the course of the one-hour debate between Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, and Republican opponent Tudor Dixon, both candidates began and ended nearly every response—on gun control, on schooling, on abortion, on election integrity, on policing—by painting their opponent as too extreme to lead the state., said at one point.
Dixon likened the governor to a tyrant with overly expansive views of her powers, not just on lockdowns but on the legal showdown over abortion in the state, both proof that Whitmer believes that she is “above the constitution of Michigan,” Dixon said, who has held onto her powers “like grim death.” Whitmer said the shutdowns were necessary to save Michiganders from dying, and pointed to the worst days of the pandemic as a moment of contrast between her own experience managing a crisis and Dixon’s actions at the time.eventually overturned
Dixon, meanwhile, “said kids couldn't get COVID,” Whitmer scoffed. “Had she been governor during the pandemic, thousands more people would have died.”
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