Donald Trump Projected Winner of Michigan State Convention

Chaos surrounded the lead-up to Saturday amid an internal party struggle for leadership at the state level. Michigan GOP Party Chair Pete Hoekstra ran the official convention in Grand Rapids, through which all delegates will be allocated, while ousted former Chair Kristina Karamo planned to hold one in Detroit that the Republican National Committee (RNC) would not recognize, the Detroit News reported. That was canceled per emails from Karamo allies on Friday, according to the outlet.

Kristina Karamo (Sarah Rice for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

In January, state party members voted to remove Karamo from her position, a vote Karamo insisted was illegitimate. In an interview with Breitbart News in January, she accused her opposition of wanting “to play Game of Thrones,” calling it “pathetic.”

The RNC sees the vote to remove Karamo as legitimate and regards Hoekstra — a former U.S. representative and ambassador to the Netherlands under the Trump administration — as the official chair, as ABC News notes. Recently, “a county circuit court judge affirmed the removal of Kristina Karamo as the chairperson.”