Colorado GOP Denies Sending #NeverTrump Tweet after Handing Cruz all Delegates


In an election season already fraught with reports of fraud — and subsequent lawsuit threats by Donald Trump — Colorado may prove to be the most alarming case yet.

After one Colorado delegate already claims he was replaced for his support of Donald Trump, the supposedly neutral Colorado Republican Party appeared anything but when they put out a controversial tweet following the results.

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The tweet was immediately deleted, but the damage was done.  Despite promptly putting out a tweet claiming that the previous one was the result of “unauthorized access to [their] account,” Politico details how the state party is now in full damage control mode:

Steve House, the Colorado GOP chairman, insisted his staff had nothing to do with the tweet and is now investigating.

“There’s no way we tweeted that,” House said, although he acknowledged that the state party was responsible for deleting it.

Even though it only existed in the ether of cyberspace for a few minutes, the optics of such a tweet coming from the neutral arbiter of Saturday’s delegate selection process amidst a hard-fought trench war between Cruz and Donald Trump to secure the Republican presidential nomination rankled a number of Colorado Republicans.

Several local GOP operatives were quick to suggest that the tweet, which was quickly deleted, was the work of the two young Republican operatives at D/CO, a newly formed Republican consulting firm that caters on outreach to Millennials. Caleb Bonham and Kyle Forti, who formed D/CO in December, just took over a number of clients from another local firm, Avinova, which used to assist the Colorado GOP with social media.

But Forti denied that he or Bonham were responsible and said they don’t have access to the state GOP’s Twitter feed.

Whether the tweet was or was not the result of “unauthorized access” is likely to matter little to Trump — who has already threatened a lawsuit– and his supporters, as they feel they have no chance of being treated fairly by the GOP establishment.

Source: Politico



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