Republican Tudor Dixon says Michigan governor's race is too close to call, despite outlets projecting her loss: 'We don't accept that Fox is calling this'

• Tudor Dixon told supporters that she didn't accept her race had been projected for her opponent.
• "We don't accept that Fox is calling this," Dixon said, vowing to stay up all night to count votes.

At a party for campaign supporters, Michigan's Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon said she refused to accept that her race had been called for her opponent.

"This race is going to be too close to call, despite what Fox thinks," Dixon told attendees after Democrat Gretchen Whitmer had been declared the projected winner by Fox News. "We don't accept that Fox is calling this."

Fox News projected that Whitmer had defeated Tudor, a Trump-backed candidate, with approximately 48% of votes tallied.

"I will see you guys when we have full results," Dixon told her supporters. "The major counties have a very, very long way to go. Macomb is now telling us that they won't even have any numbers until tomorrow morning. So that's definitely going to be a late night for us."

One watch party attendee wondered why Fox News had decided to close the book on Dixon's bid while leaving other contests up in the air.

"There was other races that were farther apart or about the same and they didn't call those," a Kent County resident who declined to give his name told Insider after Dixon announced her plans to fight on.

During that same interview, another very excited man halfway across the JW Marriott ballroom screamed at the partygoers still milling about to 'Stop!' He then told the stragglers that some other media outlet (the name was too hard to make out given that Insider was still talking to the Kent County resident) had declared the governor's race "too close to call."

"This is not over," the excited supporter screamed, adding, "Do not believe what you read!"