Constantin Querard
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Grassroots Partners, LLC |
| Role: | Founder and President |
| Location: | Phoenix, Ariz. |
| Affiliation: | Conservative |
| Education: | Thunderbird School of Global Management (MBA) |
| Website: | Official website |
Constantin Querard is a political consultant working in Arizona as the president of Grassroots Partners, LLC. In 2015, Ted Cruz selected Querard to be his Arizona state director for the 2016 presidential campaign.
Querard was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Arizona. All 58 delegates from Arizona were bound by state law to support the winner of the statewide primary, Donald Trump, for one ballot at the convention.[1] As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016.
Career
Querard earned his MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona. After school, Querard worked in Colorado and Arizona "working on a variety of campaigns for pro-family candidates and causes."[2]
In 2004, Querard founded the Arizona Family Project, a nonprofit organization that aims to involve "Arizona's families in the public policy process." He serves as their executive director. Beyond the project, Querard serves as executive director of other organizations focused on family policy such as Citizens for Arizona Policy and CAP-PAC and as director of development for Arizona Right to Life.[2][3]
In 2005, Querard founded Dicessio, LLC "to offer clients a full range of political, strategic, and marketing consulting services." Also in 2005, he founded High Noon Campaign Products, LLC "to provide campaign products, including direct mail, TV and radio production, and telephony products." In 2008, he founded the lobbying firm Grassroots Partners, LLC "to provide lobbying services for those issues that were consistent with the ideals of limited government and individual liberty." In 2014, Querard merged each of his three companies under Grassroots Partners, LLC.[4]
In 2015, the Arizona Capitol Times awarded Querard their "Best Campaign Consultant" award and quoted him as saying his dream candidate would be "someone with Ted Cruz' ideology and Mike Bloomberg's money."[5]
Ted Cruz 2016 presidential campaign
- See also: Ted Cruz presidential campaign, 2016
In 2015, Ted Cruz selected Querard as Arizona state director of the Cruz for President campaign. In the announcement, Cruz said, "Constantin is an experienced veteran of campaigns who can build a top-notch organization for us in Arizona."[6]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Querard was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Arizona. He was bound to support Donald Trump for one ballot.
Delegate rules
In Arizona, district-level and at-large delegates were selected at the Arizona Republican State Convention. Under state law, these delegates were required to vote on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention for the winner of the statewide primary.
Arizona primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Arizona, 2016
| Arizona Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.7% | 4,393 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 2.4% | 14,940 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.2% | 988 | 0 | |
| Tim Cook | 0% | 243 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz | 27.6% | 172,294 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.2% | 1,270 | 0 | |
| Lindsey Graham | 0.1% | 498 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 1,300 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 10.6% | 65,965 | 0 | |
| George Pataki | 0% | 309 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.4% | 2,269 | 0 | |
| Marco Rubio | 11.6% | 72,304 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 523 | 0 | |
 Donald Trump |
45.9% | 286,743 | 58 | |
| Totals | 624,039 | 58 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and Arizona Secretary of State | ||||
Delegate allocation
Arizona had 58 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 27 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's nine congressional districts). Arizona's district delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won the plurality of the statewide vote received all of the state's district delegates.[7][8]
Of the remaining 31 delegates, 28 served at large. At-large delegates were also allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won the plurality of the statewide vote received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention. The RNC delegates were required to pledge their support to the winner of the state's primary.[7][8]
Top influencers by state
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See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ Arizona Republican Party, "Arizona’s Elected Delegates to Republican National Convention," accessed May 6, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Grassroots Partners, "Meet CQ," accessed October 23, 2015
- ↑ Arizona Family Project, "Home," accessed October 23, 2015
- ↑ Grassroots Partners, "Our History," accessed October 23, 2015
- ↑ Arizona Capitol Times, "Best of the Capitol 2015," accessed October 23, 2015
- ↑ Ted Cruz, "Sen. Cruz Names Arizona and California State Directors," accessed October 23, 2015
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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