Michigan Republican Party blames election losses on Tudor Dixon, Trump

Updated: Nov. 11, 2022, 2:55 p.m.
By Simon Schuster | sschuster@mlive.com

Less than 48 hours after polls closed and Democrats emerged from the midterm election poised to take control of every branch of state government, the Michigan Republican Party released a scathing memo blaming their electoral failures largely on Tudor Dixon, her campaign and former president Donald Trump.

There’s a forest of pointing fingers emerging as Republicans reckon with a total loss of power at the state level, and the party provided their own suggestions looking to the top of the ticket. Paul Cordes, the party’s chief of staff, wrote Dixon’s weak performance as a gubernatorial candidate — Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer won by 11 percentage points — paired with the motivation brought by abortion access and Proposal 3 doomed the party heading into the general election.

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“They viewed Tudor and Proposal 3 as a package deal at the polls,” Cordes wrote, arguing “because of that, there was likely never any real chance at defeating” the proposal.

Trump’s widespread influence in the party harmed their chances at the ballot box, Cordes said, saying his prominence in the race and nomination of his “hand-picked” candidates “provided challenges on a statewide ballot, especially with independents and women in a midterm election.”

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It was abortion. And the MIGQP legislature had over a decade to fix the goddamned roads. The new legislature will have a lot of work to do.