Trump, GOP won swing states because they, not progressives, had the unifying message: Tudor Dixon

Former GOP Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon says Republicans won big Nov. 5 in large part, particularly in her state, because Democrats had no unifying message. 

"We are truly a battleground, and the battlegrounds were broken in this election in such a major way," Dixon said on a recent "John Solomon Reports" podcast.

She argues that Michigan has a massive uni-party and many politicians on both sides of the aisle are beholden to donors and not the people.

"This is the biggest deal for the future, because now Democrats don't have a home, and Republicans....they're part of the hammer that came down, and they are the ones leading the charge for the people," Dixon said. 

President-elect Donald Trump won the state of Michigan in 2016 and 2024, but lost it in 2020. In 2024, Trump won all of this year's battleground, or swing states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. 

Republicans in Michigan also flipped the state House of Representatives from Democratic control, meaning Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer won't be able to finish out her term with full control of the legislature.

Dixon said another reason that Democrats lost is because they only won over one demographic group, college-educated, wealthy white women.

"That's not enough to win in the future," she said. "Those people don't know where they should stand right now, because they're very angry. So they have a very angry constituency and yet they have no unifying message."

Dixon thinks that in the past Republican Party struggled to find an identity and with that Trump on the ticket he helped the GOP with their messaging and what they would do for the people.

"I think things in the last two years have really changed with Republicans, because I think Republicans have been trying to find their identity," she said. "Was it really far-right? Was it to buck the system? What was it?"

She said the GOP did a good job in 2024 by reaching out to moms, moderate Democrats and bringing awareness to other issues that hadn't been talked about in the past.

"We are now the inclusive party, but inclusive of the actual American people," Dixon said. "So when you see Tulsi Gabbard and you see RFK Jr. ... you're not pulling everything from those people. There is an ideology in some areas that you may not agree with.

"When you look at Bobby Kennedy and what he has done to protect people against chronic disease, and to have Donald Trump say, 'Hey, yeah ... I believe in what you can do there and I want you to come to me with what we need to do to protect people'.....that is truly including the American people." she continued. 

Trump has nominated Kennedy to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in the next administration.

Dixon said that Republicans have changed the definition of inclusivity to include many Americans with different concerns and working towards problem solving.

"That cement has brought everyone together and sent us on a path of really being there as servants to the American people, and that's the idea of what this experiment called the United States of America is," she said.