Mike Cox

Cox says lowering health care costs requires more competition, price transparency, and reforms to certificate-of-need rules, telehealth, and scope-of-practice limits. His campaign also says he would revive MichiganDrugPrices.com-style prescription price comparisons and use Medicaid purchasing power to push back on hospital consolidation.

Cox’s campaign calls for eliminating the state income tax, cutting regulation, ending corporate welfare, and making Michigan more business-friendly. He ties economic growth to lower taxes, a smaller state government, and policies such as right-to-work and school choice.

Cox has emphasized energy independence, opposition to EV mandates, and support for keeping energy costs down for consumers and manufacturers. His campaign also says he fought added energy costs as attorney general, but it does not lay out a detailed climate policy agenda.

No public position found on abortion or reproductive rights in the campaign materials reviewed.

Cox says he would stand with law enforcement, protect legal pathways, and oppose policies he says would benefit undocumented immigrants. His campaign cites his past legal work defending Arizona’s SB 1070 and says illegal immigration strains public services and lowers wages.

Cox presents himself as strongly pro–Second Amendment and says he has protected hunters’ and gun owners’ rights. His campaign also says he would back law enforcement and use proven crime-fighting strategies to reduce violence.

No public position found on foreign policy in the gubernatorial campaign materials reviewed.

Cox’s campaign rejects DEI programs and says it wants to end what it calls the “DEI bureaucracy.” It frames his approach as equal opportunity without identity-based preferences and cites his support for the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative.

Cox says Michigan should expand school choice, adopt science-of-reading reforms, restore A-F school grading, and increase accountability for failing schools and school leaders. He points to the Mississippi model as an example of the kind of reform he wants.

Cox says data centers should be regulated locally rather than by a statewide ban or uniform standard, and he wants developers to build their own generation capacity so ratepayers are not burdened. He also favors using water-efficient technology and opposes targeted subsidies or special tax breaks for data-center developers.

Cox emphasizes election integrity and ballot security, and his campaign says he was involved in 2024 legal efforts for the RNC and Donald Trump related to Election Day integrity. His site also describes a long-running focus on protecting Michigan elections.

Cox’s campaign does not present a detailed local-government agenda. Its local message is that cutting red tape, reducing taxes, and making state government more efficient will improve conditions for communities across Michigan.