Tudor Dixon

Dixon grew up in Naperville, Illinois, the daughter of Vaughn Makary (died 2022) and Catherine Makary.

Trump endorsed Dixon after Trump's former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos wrote a letter to the former president, asking him to support Dixon, whom DeVos termed "the only one who can stand toe to toe with" Whitmer. In August 2022, Dixon won the Republican primary.

Following an October 2022 decision to include covid-19 vaccines on the CDC's optional immunization recommendation schedule, Dixon alleged that "liberal policymakers are pushing COVID-19 vaccines on our children and forcing parents out of the process". According to Michigan Advance, the state "does not have a vaccine mandate for COVID-19 and unvaccinated children are not precluded from attending school"; the media outlet further noted that "This is not the first time Dixon has touted misinformation about COVID-19 and children".

In June 2022, Dixon spoke in support of a bill that would prohibit drag shows in public schools and permit parents and guardians to sue schools that host drag shows. Critics highlighted the lack of evidence for such events in Michigan schools, and they pointed out that drag shows were not defined in the bill.

In May 2021, Dixon announced her candidacy to become the Republican Party's nominee for Governor of Michigan in the 2022 election, seeking to challenge incumbent Democrat Gretchen Whitmer. In a July 2022 Republican primary debate, Dixon pledged loyalty to Trump. In a May 2022 debate, when asked "do you believe Donald Trump legitimately won the 2020 election in Michigan?," Dixon responded "Yes." In subsequent media appearances, Dixon would not say whether she still held that belief.

Following Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 US presidential election, Dixon promoted Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the election. In May 2022 during a Republican debate, she affirmed her belief that Trump was the rightful winner of the election. Later that year, she would not say anything when asked if the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

In a June 2020 episode of her America's Voice Live show, Dixon said "our kids are not at risk" of catching COVID-19. When Gretchen Whitmer brought this up during an October 2022 debate, Dixon denied making the comment and said "My own children have had COVID, so I would never say that."

In a June 2020 episode of her show, Dixon invoked a conspiracy theory that the COVID-19 pandemic was part of a plot that Democrats have planned for decades in order to topple the United States.

Dixon supports the Michigan Voter ID Initiative. If passed, the initiative would require governmental ID to vote, end the sending of unsolicited applications for absentee ballots, abolish ballot drop boxes, prohibit ballot harvesting, restrict election expenses to be publicly funded, and toughen punishments for election fraud. Dixon also called for an audit of the 2020 election results in Michigan.

In 2018, she became a conservative commentator, anchoring the weekly program America's Voice Live on Real America's Voice, a streaming news and opinion channel. Some of Dixon comments are that hijabs are oppressive garments and that Iranian parents are murdering daughters who marry without obtaining parental permission. She has also defended comedian's use of blackface.

Dixon is married to Aaron William Dixon, a financial controller, and they have four daughters. She is a breast cancer survivor, having been diagnosed in 2015.

Before her career in media, Dixon was an executive at her father's steel foundry. She acted briefly in the late 2000s and early 2010s, appearing in the vampire web series Transitions: The Series and the low-budget horror film Buddy BeBop vs the Living Dead. In 2017, Dixon co-founded Lumen Student News, a now-defunct news site that produced conservative-leaning lessons for grade school students.

Dixon received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in psychology from the University of Kentucky in 1998. In the 2000s, she moved to Muskegon in western Michigan.

Tudor Dixon (née Makary; born May 5, 1977) is an American businesswoman and conservative political commentator. A member of the Republican Party, Dixon was the party's nominee for Governor of Michigan in the 2022 election. She lost to incumbent Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer by a vote margin of 10.6 percentage points.