(Source: MIRS.news, Published 07/28/2022) Whether former President Donald Trump endorses anyone in the Republican presidential primary is anyone's guess, but a political action committee supporting Tudor Dixon is using Trump's prior statements in its likely final ad of this stage of the campaign.
The Michigan Families United ad shows Trump at the Washington Twp. rally addressing her from the podium, using the adjectives "fantastic and brilliant" to describe her. The crux of the ad is to proclaim how Dixon is supportive of law enforcement to counter a Democratic Governors Association (DGA) ad to the contrary.
MIRS has learned MFU is putting $589,000 into the broadcast advertising buy. With the $150,000 the Dixon campaign is putting on the air, it's in the ballpark of the $740,000 primary opponent Kevin Rinke is spending in the final days of the race.
The size of the DGA buy, however, appears to have grown to $2.2 million.
Dixon was on FOX News on Wednesday talking about how the DGA ad was aimed at preventing her from winning the primary and facing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the fall.
"I think this is an interesting attack considering her record and the fact that she's come off as a completely incompetent governor," Dixon said. "This is how you go against somebody who is coming through with true leadership and true ideas. And they're clearly afraid that her incompetence is showing, and she's going to be a failure come November if she runs against me."
Meanwhile, the Michigan Democratic Party released comments from Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton, Eaton County Sheriff Tom Reich and Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit about how reducing the state's tax rate will mean cuts to state revenue sharing payments to locals, who will be forced to cut police.
"The plan laid out by Republicans running for governor promotes devastating and irresponsible cuts that threaten to undermine our public safety mission," Clayton said.
