Colorado Republican Chairman Steve House disputed any notion that the state party will be redoing its primary caucuses.
“No, absolutely not,” House told The Daily Caller.
“There was an article in Breitbart where the reporter was talking to one of our county chairs and he proposed a hypothetical to her and she took that hypothetical to answer the question which, I guess sounded like that, but no, there is no issue with how we did the caucus,” House said of a recent Breitbart story. “Yeah, there were clerical errors, but we handled every one of those clerical errors on the spot.”
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump called the caucus “voter-less,” though 65,000 registered Republicans in the Rocky Mountain state cast votes for convention delegates in early March. Trump lost all the delegates to Texas Sen. [crscore]Ted Cruz[/crscore] at the convention.
“We even looked where there was a clerical error and if it would have made an impact and if it would have changed [anything] with the delegates, and no, it wasn’t even a close race between delegates,” House explained.
The Colorado GOP decided to drop its statewide presidential preference contest back in August, as a result of the Republican National Committee changing the rules in 2012, which demanded that any state with a preference contest or “straw poll” must bind its delegates to the result of that contest on at least the first ballot at the convention.
The Colorado GOP preferred to keep its delegates unbound on the first ballot and decided to drop its straw poll, so that its delegation could be seated at the next convention.
A bill is currently before Colorado state lawmakers to restore the statewide GOP straw poll for the 2020 election. The measure would allow non-Republicans to vote in the state primary.