Dixon has secured the endorsement of the DeVos family, longtime power brokers in Michigan, but has not made much headway with voters. The attention on her movies shows “how scared Gretchen Whitmer is, and the Democratic Party is, of Tudor Dixon,” said James Blair, a Dixon campaign consultant. Dixon, who has run on a conservative, family-centered platform, said that her work had been mischaracterized.

Tudor Dixon, a businesswoman who has described herself as a “Michigan mom on a mission,” drew attention early last month when The Detroit News reported on her acting appearances, including in productions that featured other actors in sex scenes and a 2009 horror movie in which her character “was eaten by two zombies.”Īn aide to Ms. Of course I accept the results.” The rest of the Republican field “I don’t want to question the legitimacy of the election at this point,” Mr. Johnson said they would accept the outcome of the Aug. Craig said that he and Vanguard Field Strategies, a firm his campaign had used to manage his canvassing effort, filed a lawsuit in state court against two subcontractors who helped gather signatures.īoth Mr.