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.
About 1,500 convention goers chose from five slates — one loyal to Trump, another to Cruz and another to Kasich, plus a "unity" slate set up by state party leaders and another that let convention goers choose their own list of candidates.
 State delegates were asked to vote for 56 candidates - 28 delegates and 28 alternates.
In the late afternoon, state officials raised the possibility that flaws in some of the slates — some delegates were listed on multiples slates, for example — and missing candidates could require a re-vote.
Earlier in the day convention-goers chose district-specific delegates to the GOP convention in Cleveland this summer, Republicans from Congressional District 2 split in terms.
Statewide delegates from Pima and Cochise counties selected former state legislator Frank Antenori, state senator Gail Griffin and former Congressional candidate Gabby Saucedo-Mercer to represent Congressional District 2.
Antenori and Saucedo-Mercer are listed as delegates for Donald Trump, while Griffin is reportedly backing Ted Cruz.
In Congressional District 1, delegates backed Andrea Kadar, Dwight Kadar and Phyllis Ritter as national delegates. All are listed as supporting Trump.
Kimberly Ownes, Amanda Flores and Sophia Johnson, all slated for Cruz, were elected in Congressional 3.
Each Congressional District chooses three delegates and three alternates.
More than 800 people were seeking to represent Arizona at the national convention in July. In the first round of voting, delegates will have to vote for Donald Trump if he secures 1,237 votes before the convention. But if he doesn't, the Cruz and Kasich campaigns are pushing a plan to have delegates vote however they want on a second ballot. That strategy has politicized the usually low-key convention.Â
Three Arizona Republicans are guaranteed seats in Cleveland. Phoenician Robert Graham, chair of the state party, gets a seat automatically. Tucsonan Bruce Ash, who is running unopposed as the state’s national committeeman, will also keep his seat.
Lori Klein Corbin was chosen to replace Sharon Giese as the state’s national committeewoman.
