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The candidate’s Arizona campaign chair, Jeff DeWit, went a step further, telling reporters the billionaire would sue to force a new election of delegates for the national GOP convention in July.

DeWit was visibly upset just minutes before Arizona Republican Party officials released results of an electronic vote to elect 28 at-large delegates to the convention from a pool of 800 candidates. By his count, only two of the candidates his campaign backed were going to Cleveland — with the rest supporting Trump’s rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

“I don’t believe that in a state where Mr. Trump had a vast, vast, overwhelming 2-to-1 advantage in the voting over Ted Cruz, that it should turn out that Ted Cruz has this vast, overwhelming number of the delegates now pledged to him,� said DeWit, who is also Arizona’s state treasurer.

The head of Cruz’s campaign in Arizona, Constantin Querard, said DeWit was just upset about losing.

“They don’t want to hold all the Trump voters responsible for their own votes,� Querard said.

“It is up to every campaign to make sure their slate is right.�

Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Trump supporter who was vying to become a GOP delegate, said she thought Arizona voters had been “cheated� by the state convention delegates.

“The people of Arizona got cheated. I got cheated. And the Trump delegates got cheated,� Brewer said.

DeWit said the website Arizona Republicans used to choose delegates for this summer’s national GOP convention — — wasn’t functioning properly. So even if someone touched Brewer’s name on the touch screen, “Jan Brewer’s name was not selected,� he said. He said names of delegates supporting Trump were selected more than those supporting Cruz or Ohio Gov. John Kasich, but the results didn’t reflect that.

Arizona Republican Party Chair Robert Graham defended the electronic system, saying it was tested and fully vetted prior to the convention.

“The greatest thing about our process is transparency. When you have a transparent process, you invited all parties to participate — and there is no question that this process has integrity,� Graham said.

Cruz supporters said simple math led to the at-large victory. They offered a nearly identical slate of candidates as Kasich backers, and the combined votes led to a win.

Graham said the Cruz/Kasich campaign had a better ground game at the convention and therefore “dominated the vote.�

National Committeeman Bruce Ash agreed, saying the Cruz campaign brought in key strategists to build a slate of appealing delegates to send to Cleveland.

The victory was mainly strategic for Cruz, since all 58 Arizona delegates must vote for Trump on the first national ballot because he won the state’s primary.

If he doesn’t win on that first ballot, delegates can vote however they wish on a second ballot. That possibility has politicized the usually low-key state convention.

Trump has nearly 1,000 national delegates of the 1,237 he needs to win the presidential nomination outright — and he has several states and weeks of campaigning to go.

About 1,250 state convention delegates were asked to chose from five slates — one loyal to Trump, another to Cruz and another to Kasich, a “unity� slate set up by state party leaders, and another that let convention-goers choose their own list of candidates.

In the late afternoon, state officials raised the possibility that flaws in some of the slates — some delegates were listed on multiple slates, for example — and missing candidates could require a revote.

The idea was later dismissed.

Before the controversial election to choose at-large delegates, convention-goers chose district-specific delegates.

Delegates from Pima and Cochise counties selected former state legislator Frank Antenori, state Sen. Gail Griffin and former congressional candidate Gabby Saucedo-Mercer to represent Congressional District 2.

Antenori and Saucedo-Mercer are listed as delegates for Trump, while Griffin is reportedly backing Cruz.

In Congressional District 1, delegates backed Andrea Kadar, Dwight Kadar and Phyllis Ritter as national delegates. All are listed as supporting Trump, although Andrea Kadar was also listed as a Cruz delegate.

Kimberly Ownes, Aman-da 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.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.