Arizona Democrats vote to oust state party chair amid infighting

Arizona Democrats voted to oust their state party chair, Robert Branscomb II, during a special meeting Wednesday, a major rebuke that comes as the party has been embroiled in infighting.

Arizona Democratic state committee members notched the two-thirds majority threshold needed to formally remove Branscomb during a tense meeting plagued by technical difficulties, according to local media reports.

Dissent over Branscomb and his leadership of the party had been bubbling up in the months leading up to the Wednesday meeting.

Branscomb upset his party when he sent a note to state committee members in April, alleging that Arizona’s Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego were intimidating him over his pick for executive director.


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