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Incumbent Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, has won reelection, defeating Republican nominee and prolific conspiracy theorist Tudor Dixon.
Dixon was one of the Republican Party's most, uh, colorful nominees this cycle, known for her rambling theories connecting COVID-19 to the Black Lives Matter movement, claiming Democrats were looking to topple the government as revenge for losing the Civil War, and blaming a Michigan school shooting on "critical race theory." She was also aggressively opposed by prominent past Michigan Republicans who instead backed Whitmer, saying Dixon was "fueling the lies that have weakened democracy."
Dixon refused in September to commit to accepting her own possible election loss, one of six Republican gubernatorial nominees who refused to give such a commitment.