LANSING, Mich. — Former President Donald Trump on Monday touted GOP gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon's lieutenant governor pick Shane Hernandez and called on Michigan Republicans to "work together" ahead of a convention that some party members fear could turn contentious.
Trump issued a statement after 7 p.m., about 90 minutes after Farmington Hills pastor Ralph Rebandt, a former candidate for governor, said he planned to challenge Hernandez's nomination at Saturday's Michigan Republican Party convention in Lansing.
Dixon, a political commentator and businesswoman from Norton Shores, on Friday revealed her selection of Hernandez, a former state lawmaker from Port Huron, as her preferred running mate.
