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July 29, 2016 09:16 AM UTC

Trump Official: Colorado's Anti-Trump RNC Delegates Are "Insignificant Going Forward"

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(Got that, punks? – Promoted by Colorado Pols)

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In a parting jab at the Colorado delegates who tried to derail Trump’s nomination last week, Colorado Trump Campaign Director Patrick Davis called the group “insignificant going forward,” and he said as of last week, there is “no light between the Donald Trump Campaign and the Colorado Republican Party.”

“The small delegation that walked off the floor and became kind of ‘the story’ in Cleveland from Colorado, they’re just that, a small delegation,” Davis told KNUS 710-AM’s Peter Boyles Wednesday. “They are insignificant going forward. From this day forward, and frankly from last Friday, there has been no light between the Donald Trump campaign and the Colorado Republican Party.”

“If they’d had their way, we’d still be talking about rules,” said Davis later in the interview.

“Steve House, the Colorado Chairman, has been an early supporter of Donald Trump and has taken some of the heat for doing it, just like you [Peter Boyles],” he continued.

Boyles responded to Davis by saying he thought House opposed Trump in the early going.

Some state Republicans were up in arms in May about a blog post, picked up by Drudge, which included a quote from Steve House in which he appeared to oppose Trump.

House drew fire from the Trump Campaign in April for an anti-Trump  “We did it” tweet that was sent from the official state Twitter feed after Cruz won all the delegates at the state party convention.

House stated many times along the way that he was neutral in the GOP primary race here, and he went to Cleveland as an unbound delegate.

Just before the convention, before Trump had sealed up the delegates needed for the nomination, House appeared to tell a reporter he thought Trump would win the nominiation in the first round of voting even if he did not amass the magic number of 1,237 delegates before the convention.

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9 thoughts on “Trump Official: Colorado’s Anti-Trump RNC Delegates Are “Insignificant Going Forward”

  1. Kendal Unruh and the other Never-Trumpers are the backbone of the party – the people who bring the food, welcome the volunteers and organize work details, etc. Alienating them is never a good idea. Here's the best reporting I found on the Colorado delegation's anti-Trump work at the RNC convention, from Democracy Now:

     

    I took out the embedded video, as it was auto-playing, but the link should work.

  2. Wonder if Steve House is on board with that "no light between" the party and Trump's campaign? How about all of the other candidates on the ballot?

        1. Bernie called for HRC to be pronounced the nominee by acclamation, for God's sake. Ted wouldn't even endorse his party nominee.  Did he even say the name "Trump" in his speech? A tale of two parties and two conventions.

          You know what else? As far as I know, no bands demanded that HRC's campaign or the DNC stop using their music. 

  3. Patrick Davis seems to be living in a Limbaugh-esque, fact-free, universe

    (I saw that quote on a Yahoo discussion thread about pro-Trumpsters).

  4. The majority of Colorado GOP delegates were Cruz supporters – they won every national delegate seat (Trump got a couple of alternate spots) based on the vote of over a thousand state convention delegates. There were 8,000 people at the state GOP convention! Consider also that those delegates were elected at caucuses. But these people are "insignificant"? Think again.

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