Trump aide claims ‘millions’ tearing up GOP registrations

An aide to Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Monday evening claimed that there were “millions” of Republican voters tearing up their party registrations. 

Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson made the comment during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, who noted video that Trump shared of a voter in Colorado destroying his Republican registration but questioned Pierson’s claim that “millions” were doing the same.

{mosads}“There are millions of Republicans right now who are saying this is not going to work,” Pierson insisted, mentioning voters in states like Louisiana, where Trump has missed out on picking up delegates, and saying, “many of them are threatening to leave the party.”

Trump and his aides have lashed out after rival Ted Cruz picked up all of Colorado’s at-large delegates over the weekend at the party’s state convention. Trump’s campaign failed to lock up support in the state, which announced in August it would scrap its presidential preference poll. 

Pierson denied that having a bigger campaign operation on the ground in Colorado would have changed the results, claiming, “there are some shenanigans going on.”

She also stood by Trump convention manager Paul Manafort’s statement alleging that the Cruz campaign was using “Gestapo tactics” in shoring up support from delegates.

She noted that John Kasich’s campaign had gone after the “strong-arm” tactics of the Cruz campaign in Michigan, saying on CNN that the phrases were “essentially the same thing.”

“You’re talking about a campaign that doesn’t care much about political correctness,” she said as Blitzer repeatedly pressed her about denouncing the charged language.

“Where was all this hostility and concern when Mr. Trump was being called Hitler?” she asked.