The Tudor Dixon campaign has accepted four debate invitations and requested to negotiate dates and rules with the Whitmer campaign. As of today, Gretchen Whitmer is still refusing to debate before voting begins and has failed to engage on Tudor Dixon's good-faith offer to negotiate details.
1. The Dixon campaign has accepted WOOD News 8's initially proposed date of September 20th and has offered September 22nd, 27th, and 29th as alternatives.
2. The Dixon campaign has accepted WWMT/WEYI/WPBN's invitation to a debate broadcast in the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City and Traverse City-Cadillac markets. The Dixon campaign has proposed September 22nd, 27th, and 29th as options and offered to be flexible on other September date options. Tudor Dixon believes voters in these markets deserve the opportunity to hear from the candidates, although Gretchen Whitmer appears not to feel the same way.
3. The Dixon campaign has accepted WXYZ's proposed dates of either October 17th or 24th.
4. The Dixon campaign has accepted Fox 2 Detroit's invitation and has proposed scheduling it during the first week of October.
The Dixon campaign again offered to work with the Whitmer campaign on a debate schedule and rules this past Friday morning in private correspondence. The letter provided by the Dixon team to the Whitmer team is a good faith offer that reiterates Tudor Dixon's belief that the hundreds of thousands of voters in the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City and Traverse City-Cadillac markets deserve a televised debate and that all voters deserve an opportunity to hear directly from the candidates before voting begins in earnest the last week of September.
Dixon campaign Chief Strategist James Blair provided the following comment for use:
"Not only is Gretchen Whitmer hidin' from Biden, now she's hiding from Michigan voters. Gretchen Whitmer is trying to hide behind tens of millions of dollars in dishonest attack ads financed by her California / New York liberal elite cronies. The last thing she wants to do is answer for her incompetence and lies directly to Michigan voters. Gretchen Whitmer owes it to Michiganders to come out of hiding and answer for her failures, but she is scared to talk about the jobs she drove away, the small businesses she destroyed, the learning losses she caused, the violent crime she let proliferate, the roads she failed to fix, and the promises she refused to keep. Can Gretchen Whitmer provide one good reason why a debate shouldn't take place before voting begins?"
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