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Mar 17, 2014

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GOP convention highlights contrasting candidates

A lot has been made of the splintering in the Republican party and that couldn't have been more apparent this weekend than in the contrast between the two frontrunner Republican gubernatorial candidates, Neel Kashkari and Tim Donnelly.

Neel Kashkari, a former U.S. Treasury official, announced that he would run for governor of California during an appearance at the Sacramento Business Review at California State University, Sacramento, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, in Sacramento, Calif. Kashkari, a political newcomer and Republican, faces long odds against incumbent Gov. Jerry Brown. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

A lot has been made of the splintering in the Republican party and that couldn't have been more apparent this weekend than in the contrast between the two frontrunner Republican gubernatorial candidates, Neel Kashkari and Tim Donnelly.

We begin this morning with a look at California's Republican party.

By all accounts it was a pretty rockin' weekend up in Burlingame, California, where the state's Republican party gathered for its biannual convention to hammer out a new party platform and meet and greet its gubernatorial candidates.

For more on that we're joined by John Myers, the Political editor for the Sacramento ABC affiliate KXTV.