Tudor Dixon pitches vision for state near Detroit

• However, she is channeling the frustrations of parents angry about LGBTQ+ affirming books in schools and what's happening in classrooms following a learning gap caused by school closures during the pandemic.
• She's banking on harnessing that momentum at the polls on Nov. 8.

Driving the news: Dixon made one of her first appeals to Metro Detroiters over the weekend at an event in Rochester Hills.

• She took questions from the public, including what she's doing to connect with minority communities.
• Dixon said she recently spoke to a Macomb County Commissioner "to try to get us a meeting with the Black community in Wayne County."

The intrigue: Dixon told the crowd of mostly supporters that over-regulation is hurting business and said her administration would cut red tape to secure large development projects.

• But Dixon hasn't secured endorsements from prominent business groups like the Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association or the Michigan Chamber of Commerce — which hasn't missed a general election endorsement in two decades, according to Bridge Michigan.

Of note: While Whitmer has called Dixon a conspiracy theorist, her stance on the 2020 election is blurry. She's shown enough skepticism to earn the endorsement of former president Donald Trump — who has fought against any Republican who accepts the result of the latest presidential election — but hasn't made investigating the results a priority of her campaign.

• Fivethirtyeight reports Dixon has "fully denied" President Joe Biden's election victory, but it's not that simple.
• MLive says Dixon's shifting stance has gone from certainty that there was fraud, to "it's impossible to know."