LANSING (WKZO) -- There will be a televised debate among the top three Republican U.S. Senate candidates before the August 7th primary.

The campaigns of Pete Hoekstra, Clark Durant and Randy Hekman have agreed on the event to be taped at the studios of public television station WKAR in East Lansing on August 2nd.  It will air on all public TV stations in the state the weekend before the primary and is the only scheduled, televised GOP debate of the campaign.

The winner of the primary faces incumbent Senator Debbie Stabenow in November.