GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Four of the five GOP gubernatorial candidates on the ballot in Michigan’s primary election will take the debate stage Wednesday night.
WOOD TV8 will host the debate between Tudor Dixon, Ryan Kelley, Kevin Rinke, and Garrett Soldano. Nexstar company guidelines allow candidates who earned 5 percent in recent independent polling to debate.
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Ralph Rebandt did not make the cut.
Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig is running as an official write-in candidate, and has not been invited to debate either.
Recent polling shows Dixon with 28 percent of the vote in the Detroit, with a close race between her, Rinke, and Kelley.
The debate runs from 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. Wednesday night.
Michigan’s primary is August 2.
