So-called "Ultra MAGA" candidates, alt-conservative Republicans who have adopted an "America First" isolationist philosophy, swept GOP county conventions across Michigan on Thursday night in the runup to the Michigan Republican Party convention on Aug. 27 in Lansing. In Macomb and Hillsdale counties, personality conflicts and ideological battles caused warring factions to hold competing county conventions, causing the state GOP to decide whose delegates to seat, according to The Detroit News. But from Ottawa County to Oakland County to the Upper Peninsula, new faces were seen showing up to conventions and casting votes for slates that defeated those candidates supported by
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