Posted on 04/30/2016 10:13:15 PM PDT by Bratch
Upset that Donald Trump received just a handful of statewide delegates during an electronic vote, his Arizona campaign manager is threatening to sue the Arizona Republican Party.
"This stinks to high heaven!" Jeff DeWit shouted at reporters, decrying the results of the at-large delegates.
He suggested the website Arizona Republicans used to choose delegates for this summer's national GOP convention, NeverHillary.SimplyVoting.com, was rigged. He offered proof in terms of a screen shot that suggests statewide delegates clicked on a slate supporting Trump.
"People clicked the trump button more than any other and we got hosed," he said.
Former governor Jan Brewer, a national candidate who supports Trump, agreed with DeWit.
"This stinks to high heaven," she said.
State Party Chairman Robert Graham stood by the results, saying the combined Ted Cruz and John Kasich supporters simply did better in the second half of the convention, getting a majority of the support.
Graham dismissed the legal threats from DeWit, saying elections have winners and losers.
He said he was confident in the results, saying the party set up a national delegate election that is completely transparent.
(Excerpt) Read more at tucson.com ...
Vote Kelli Ward for McPain’s Senate seat in AZ. It is about time to throw him out.
And I've got to say this. I am sick and tired of Ted Cruz and his supporters squawking about procedures, trying to convince themselves that enough backroom deals and shady maneuvers will justify denying the will of the voter.
Senator Cruz could have left this race an honorable man, and could have had a pretty good future. Now, Gallup is saying he is the completely underwater with GOP voters.
The man is a buffoon. A laughingstock. A miserable SOB. And people won't forget.
When I was a delegate I was also disappointed at the lack of integrity of the state delegates. Those voting for state delegates at the county delegate eledtions also lack integrity.
Great video. I sent it to my friends in CA.
How Arizona Voted:
Those WERE the rules (below), did they change them for Ted?
Trump, Donald John, Sr.
286,743_______ 45.95%_________58___ 100.00% soft total delegates
Cruz, Rafael Edward “Ted”
172,294______ 27.61%
Rubio, Marco A.
72,304________ 11.59%
Delegate Selection: Winner-Take-All,
Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary
58 total delegates - 10 base at-large / 27 re: 9 congressional districts / 3 party / 18 bonus
Saturday 30 April 2016: The Arizona State Convention convenes. Delegates are elected according to the results of the primary.
27 district delegates to the Republican National Convention are chosen with 3 delegates selected in each of the 9 congressional districts.
The State Convention chooses 28 at-large delegates from Arizona to the Republican National Convention.
In addition, 3 party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Arizona’s Republican Party, will attend the convention as bound delegates by virtue of their position.
... each delegate to the national convention shall vote for the party’s presidential nominee candidate who received the greatest number of votes in the presidential preference election ..., until the candidate releases the delegate from the delegate’s obligation, until a candidate withdraws from the race or until one convention nominating ballot has been taken. After a candidate is nominated, withdraws from the race, delegates are released or one ballot is taken, each delegate is free to vote as the delegate chooses .... [Arizona Revised Statutes 16-243]
“Trump knew the rules when he started this race. He does not have the luxury to decide which rules are fair or unfair to him, that is the province of the local state Republican parties which are also as corrupt as he.”
So, the guy representing the American people who are getting ripped off by unethical rules is corrupt? Sure, and we are not allowed an opinion of fairness? Sure, so in your ugly world what is just? What is moral? Bet you are part of the Cruz Cult...not a twit for reasoning, just blathering nonsense that makes you think your ruler would smile over. Get a life, get real...and get the hell out of the way of the Trump Train, we are going to run right over your sorry ass.
I hope the people in Texas won’t forget and overwhelmingly decide to make “Lyin’ Ted” a one-term senator. He deserves to be exiled and to go down as a fraudulent footnote in history!!!!
McCain People were at the convention still collecting signatures to get on the ballot. I though he’d be done by now.
Wow.
Ya mean them wunnderful computer things can be HACKED??
Well, gag me with a spoon.
There were lots of older, non technical people who struggled using the computer system.
One woman told me that there were several complaints that people helping them were selecting the Cruz slate for them and not the Trump slate as they wanted.
It was very disorganized.
I got a really awesome Trump hat tho!! And I met some cool people.
Someone else’s name was left off as well. It was announced and they were trying to correct that one, so they could have fixed the Jan Brewer issue.
I met Travis. He’s awesome!
Backroom backstabbing got Hitler into power. Does Cruz’s conservatism sanction those kind of shenanigans? Or is he running “by any means necessary”. Oh wait, that would be a Marxist methodology or possibly taqiyya.
Lyin’ Ted practices “convenient conservatism” - saying & doing whatever will get him more power.
From the beginning, Lyin’ Ted & Goldman-Sachs Heidi were and still are Establishment Crony Socialists for the uni-Party.
Trump supporters have to organize, show up and do work.
Dont complain about being out worked. Just do the work, and quit whining.
The voting system was rigged. Has nothing to do with the delegate system at this point.
People were voting for Trump delegate slate yesterday and their vote didn’t get counted.
What’s not corrupt about that?
Wow, I thought Arizona was a state that had its sh*t together.
Clearly, I was wrong.
Arizon clearly wants to operate AGAINST the CONSENT of the people. Therefore, if this is allowed to stand, then what is holding them back from anything else?
People said, without evidence blah blah blah
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