{"id":2018340,"date":"2023-08-31T16:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-advised-tudor-dixon-to-talk-differently-about-abortion-during-her-failed-campaign-for-michigan-governor\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T16:19:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:19:25","slug":"trump-advised-tudor-dixon-to-talk-differently-about-abortion-during-her-failed-campaign-for-michigan-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-advised-tudor-dixon-to-talk-differently-about-abortion-during-her-failed-campaign-for-michigan-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump told Tudor Dixon to change her approach to discussing abortion during her unsuccessful Michigan gubernatorial campaign."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-advised-tudor-dixon-to-talk-differently-about-abortion-during-her-failed-campaign-for-michigan-governor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2018340&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-promises-to-prosecute-democrats-as-president-theyre-doing-it-to-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> Advises Republican Nominee for Governor of Michigan<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Tudor Dixon Reveals Trump&#8217;s Advice on Abortion<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Former President Donald Trump advised Tudor Dixon, the Republican nominee \u2063for Governor of Michigan in the 2022 \u200delection, to dial it back on\u200d abortion during her campaign,\u2062 Dixon revealed on her podcast that aired Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dixon, who ran unsuccessfully against Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, had \u200dTrump on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-tudor-dixon-podcast-an-exclusive-interview\/id1678556326?i=1000626177277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Tudor Dixon Podcast<\/a>\u201d to discuss the 2024 race\u2063 and how she came up short in \u200d2022. Dixon, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-already-licking-their-chops-at-getting-taxpayers-to-pay-for-abortions-amid-potential-biden-admin\/\" title=\"Activists Already Licking Their Chops at Getting Taxpayers To Pay for Abortions Amid Potential Biden Admin\">pro-life<\/a>,\u200c took heat from the Left during her\u2064 campaign for saying she did not believe in any exceptions for abortion. Dixon noted that \u2063Trump told \u200cher to \u2064be careful on the abortion issue as it gave Democrats momentum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou \u2062came to me and you said, \u2018You got to talk differently about abortion.\u2019 And we could not pivot, we could not pivot in time,\u201d Dixon told Trump during the interview. She added that Trump was \u201cabsolutely right\u201d to give her\u2063 the advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI hope that you are able to navigate that\u200d issue in \u201924 and \u200cthat we can win those women back because they are already putting out attack ads, and it\u200c is not a fair issue for them\u2062 to attack on,\u201d Dixon said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump told Dixon that he\u200b didn\u2019t\u200b receive the same backlash that she did for his stance on abortion because he \u2064was careful with how he addressed the \u2064issue during his campaigns. \u201cThere\u2019s \u2064a way of talking about it,\u201d he said, adding that Democrats \u201care the radicals\u201d on the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cExceptions are very\u2062 important.\u200b I think you need the exceptions. You and I talked about that,\u201d Trump added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abortion played a pivotal role in the Democrats\u2019\u2064 domination in Michigan elections\u2064 in 2022 just months after the Supreme Court struck down <i>Roe v. Wade<\/i>. The issue was also directly on the ballot with Michigan voters choosing to make abortion a constitutional right. Whitmer won \u2064re-election with nearly 55% of the vote while Democrats also won the election for attorney general, gained \u2063control of the \u200bstate\u2062 legislature, and\u200c took multiple key U.S. House races.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In \u2062a \u200dFox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6335585300112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> last week, Dixon said the Left and the media jumped on her abortion stance early, which \u201cabsolutely\u201d hurt her in the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNo one \u2062really \u2062understood how important abortion would be in 2022\u200b because no one had run in\u200d a post-<i>Roe<\/i> world,\u201d Dixon said. \u201cSo we suddenly got viciously attacked by the \u200dDemocrats, and it is a winning message for them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dixon praised \u200bNikki\u200b Haley for her answer\u200d on abortion during the first GOP \u200bpresidential debate, arguing \u2063that Republicans\u200c need to take a state-by-state approach \u200cto \u2063the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump, currently in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/latest-presidential-polls-trailing-candidates-get-slight-post-debate-boost-trump-still-dominates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">command of\u2062 the polls<\/a> for the GOP\u2062 primary, has not said \u200bif\u2063 he supports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stefanik-proposes-15-week-federal-ban-on-abortion\/\" title=\"Stefanik suggests 15-week abortion ban.\">15-week federal ban<\/a> on abortion that some Republican candidates have advocated for. \u200cThe former president <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-abortion-evangelicals-supreme-court-3bf88968fcd6d7170abaa31ca3084fa8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> the U.S. government has \u201ca vital role\u201d\u2063 in opposing abortion and touted \u2063his crucial Supreme Court appointments, which ultimately led to the overturning of <i>Roe<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOne of the reasons they wanted <i>Roe v. Wade<\/i> terminated,\u201d he said, \u201cis to bring it back into the states where\u200c a lot \u2062of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-advised-tudor-dixon-to-talk-differently-about-abortion-during-her-failed-campaign-for-michigan-governor\/\" title=\"Trump told Tudor Dixon to change her approach to discussing abortion during her unsuccessful Michigan gubernatorial campaign.\">people feel strongly<\/a> the greatest progress for pro-life is now being made,\u201d Trump said in June. \u201cThere of course remains a vital role \u200cfor the federal government in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/diabolical-that-supreme-court-didnt-protect-abortion-like-religious-liberty-msnbc-legal-analyst\/\" title=\"\u2018Diabolical\u2019 That Supreme Court Didn\u2019t Protect Abortion Like Religious Liberty: MSNBC Legal Analyst\">protecting unborn life<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump urged Tudor Dixon, the GOP candidate for Michigan Governor in 2022, to tone down her abortion stance during her campaign. Dixon disclosed this on her podcast, where she interviewed Trump. She previously ran against Democrat Gretchen Whitmer but was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2018341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}