LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Debates between candidates running for political office are a long-standing tradition. With election day morphing into election season in recent years, hearing from the candidates can be a critical moment for how voters cast their ballots.

When it comes to Michigan’s top job, both women running for office appear at odds regarding when those debates should be held.

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Tudor Dixon, the GOP candidate running for Michigan governor, says that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s campaign has gone silent regarding her offer to debate before voting begins.

“Not only is Gretchen Whitmer hidin’ from Biden, now she’s hiding from Michigan voters,” Dixon stated in a press release. “Gretchen Whitmer owes it to Michiganders to come out of hiding and answer for her failures, but she is scared to talk about the jobs she drove away, the small businesses she destroyed, the learning losses she caused, the violent crime she let proliferate, the roads she failed to fix, and the promises she refused to keep. ”

 

Michigan residents can request absentee ballots for any reason, and they will be mailed out starting on September 29. That means voting essentially begins in September and runs through election day.

Last week, Whitmer’s campaign announced it had accepted invitations for two debates that would be televised statewide in mid-to-late October.  Several attempts to reach Whitmer’s campaign by Michigan News Source were unsuccessful.

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Dixon’s campaign says she has committed to several debates in September, and alleges Whitmer will not commit to those debates since it’s before early voting.

Michigan’s general election is November 8.