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Michigan GOP picks final state delegates

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It's looking more and more like there will be a brokered Republican National Convention. Saturday Michigan's GOP party decided who will represent the state in July.

Governor Snyder spoke Saturday morning about uniting the Republican party.

"We need to do is come together and have the leadership to go to Washington and say it is time to reinvent that place" said Gov. Snyder.

This year's convention has been one of the most important conventions in recent years because a candidate hasn't received 1,237 delegates needed.

"This is the first time in 40 years that there's a possibility of a contested convention," said republican strategist, Stu Sander. "I think the delegates are really excited about it."

Saturday, representatives chose 17 at-large delegates. They're pleged to certain candidates in the first round of the national convention.

"The candidates and their campaigns are going to have to vet these delegates properly and they're going to have to keep talking to them because it's important that they have them ready to vote in Cleveland" explains Sander.

If no one candidate wins a majority of the delegates it means a contested convention. After that the delegates selected can vote for whoever they want.

One of those delegates heading to Cleveland is re-elected National Committeewoman Kathy Berden. She plans on choosing one candidate no matter what.

"I pledged to Donald Trump because I am representing Michigan, he took bulk of the votes in Michigan. I'm glad to go and represent him," Committeewoman Berden said.

Donald Trump will get Berden and ten other at-large delegate's votes in the first round.

Senator Ted Cruz and Governor John Kasich will each get three.

But by the end, Berden says the delegates need to come together as a united party.

"When it comes to our eventual nominee, whoever that maybe, we have to coalesce around that otherwise we would have a hard time winning the election," Berden said. "So, we're a political family we will come together and we're gonna do great this fall."