Former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox announces run for governor

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Fox 2 – A former Legal professional Normal of Michigan has thrown his hat within the ring for the Gubernatorial Race 2026. Mike Cox, who served as AG from 2003 to 2011, formally introduced his run for Governor on Tuesday.

Cox, a Republican, who in 2010 “Michigan once more Nice Once more Nice Once more” is Ran for Governor, however completed third within the major behind Rick Snyder and congressman Pete Hoekstra.

“I’ve protected individuals all my life, fought and beat the worst of the worst. Let’s not help and let radical politicians or get up bureaucrats, we undermine us longer,” Cox wrote on Fb.

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Cox, 63, a former navy, beforehand labored with each the Oakland County and the workplaces of Wayne County. He was restricted as an lawyer basic.

“Dangerous politicians with worse concepts destroy our Michigan, made it more durable to work, tougher to study, made us much less secure,” he says in a marketing campaign video. “I’m uninterested in listening to that we can not beat anybody, that we should always settle for much less. Are you not?”

His spouse Laura Cox, is a former state consultant and extra not too long ago served as chairman of the Republican Celebration of Michigan.

The present Gretchen Whitmer authorities is restricted with Democrat Candidates Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist, State Secretary Jocelyn Benson and Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson are all strolling.

Mayor of Detroit Mike Duggan, a Democrat, runs as impartial.

On the Republican aspect, Cox joins the American Rep. John James, Republican senate chief Aric Nesbitt and Anthony Hudson, who ran for the congress final yr.