LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Republicans officially set their ticket of candidates for November at an occasionally combative convention Saturday in downtown Lansing, where former state Rep. Shane Hernandez was selected as the party's nominee for lieutenant governor.
The gathering began with boos against Chairman Ron Weiser and a two-hour fight over which delegates should represent Macomb County. But it concluded with a overwhelming vote of support for Hernandez of Port Huron, a conservative whom Republican candidate for governor Tudor Dixon selected as her running mate.
About 77% of voting delegates supported Hernandez. He only needed more than half of them to vote for him to become the nominee.
