DETROIT — Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has won a second term in Michigan's top office, defeating Republican challenger Tudor Dixon after a heated race that focused on abortion rights and the battleground state's economy.
With about 63% of the estimated vote counted, Whitmer led Dixon 52%-47%, a 5-point advantage for the incumbent. At 1 a.m., Whitmer was winning Oakland County by 23 percentage points, 61%-38%, with nearly 85% of the precincts in the state's second-largest county reporting tallies. In 2018, Whitmer claimed Oakland County by 17 points.
However, the reporting of results in Wayne, Macomb and Kent counties lagged behind Oakland.
