Jeff DeWit
Jeff DeWit is the former Republican Arizona treasurer.[1] He was sworn into office on January 5, 2015, succeeding Doug Ducey (R), who left the seat open in the 2014 elections in order to run for governor. DeWit resigned on April 3, 2018, to become NASA's chief financial officer.[2]
On January 24, 2024, DeWit resigned from his position as state party chairman of the Arizona Republican Party.[3] He was elected by the party to serve as the chairman on January 28, 2023.[4]
In July 2016, DeWit was selected to serve as the chief operations officer for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's national campaign. He had previously served as the campaign's state chairman for Arizona since January 2016. In April 2016, DeWit stated that he did not intend to run for re-election in 2018.[5][6]
DeWit was a district-level 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.[7] 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.
Biography
After earning degrees in accounting and business management, DeWit began his career in finance in 1992. In 1999, DeWit founded a company called ECHOtrade, and remained the CEO of that company for 14 years. In 2014, he successfully ran for Treasurer of Arizona.[1]
Education
Dewit has a degree in business administration and a second degree in accounting.[1]
Political career
Arizona Treasurer (2015-2018)
DeWit served as Arizona Treasurer from January 5, 2015, to April 3, 2018. He was elected to his first term in office on November 4, 2014. He ran unopposed in the general election.[8]
DeWit resigned on April 3, 2018, to become NASA's chief financial officer.[2]
2016 presidential endorsement
✓ DeWit endorsed Donald Trump for the Republican primary in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[9]
- See also: Endorsements for Donald Trump
Elections
2014
DeWit ran for election to the office of Arizona Treasurer. DeWit secured the Republican nomination in the primary on August 26, 2014, and was unopposed in the general election.
Results
Primary election
| Arizona Treasurer Republican Primary, 2014 | ||||
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
 Jeff DeWit |
45% | 215,892 | ||
| Hugh Hallman | 32.5% | 155,775 | ||
| Randy Pullen | 22.5% | 108,106 | ||
| Total Votes | 479,773 | |||
| Election results via Arizona Secretary of State. | ||||
Polls
| Arizona Treasurer, Republican Primary | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Poll | Jeff DeWit | Hugh Hallman | Randy Pullen | Undecided | Margin of error | Sample size | |||||||||||||
| Harper Polling August 19-20, 2014 | 23% | 19% | 21% | 37% | +/-3.44 | 812 | |||||||||||||
| Gravis Marketing July 14, 2014 | 20% | 9% | 10% | 61% | +/-4.0 | 691 | |||||||||||||
| Magellan Strategies July 9-10, 2014 | 11% | 11% | 8% | 70% | +/-4.02 | 593 | |||||||||||||
| AVERAGES | 18% | 13% | 13% | 56% | +/-3.82 | 698.67 | |||||||||||||
| Note: The polls above may not reflect all polls that have been conducted in this race. Those displayed are a random sampling chosen by Ballotpedia staff. If you would like to nominate another poll for inclusion in the table, send an email to editor@ballotpedia.org. | |||||||||||||||||||
Campaign finance summary
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2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
DeWit was a district-level 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.[10][11]
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.[10][11]
Noteworthy events
2024 resignation as state party chairman
On January 23, 2024, the Daily Mail published a recording of a conversation between DeWit and Kari Lake, then a candidate for the U.S. Senate, representing Arizona. The recording entailed a conversation between DeWit and Lake in which DeWit appears to offer Lake a job, in exchange for Lake's abstinence from the state's Senate race. [12]
On January 24, 2024, DeWit resigned from his position as Arizona Republican Party Chairman. DeWit told the Associated Press, “Our relationship was based on friendship, and the conversation that is now being scrutinized was an open, unguarded exchange between friends in the living room of her house. I genuinely believed I was offering a helpful perspective to someone I considered a friend.”[3]
Recent news
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See also
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External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Office of the Arizona Treasurer, "About Treasurer DeWit," accessed January 6, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Arizona Capitol Times, "DeWit to resign April 3 for NASA job," March 27, 2018
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Associated Press, "Arizona GOP boss quits after leaked tape shows him floating a job for Kari Lake to skip Senate race," accessed January 25, 2024
- ↑ CBS News, "Arizona Republicans pick former Trump aide Jeff DeWit to lead state party in landslide vote," January 29, 2023
- ↑ Bloomberg Politics, "Trump Campaign Appoints Arizona's Jeff DeWit as COO," July 27, 2016
- ↑ The Arizona Republic, "Why state Treasurer Jeff DeWit won't run for re-election," April 6, 2016
- ↑ Arizona Republican Party, "Arizona’s Elected Delegates to Republican National Convention," accessed May 6, 2016
- ↑ AZCentral, "Republican Jeff DeWit new state treasurer," accessed Aug. 7, 2015
- ↑ The Arizona Republic, "Trump taps Treasurer Jeff DeWit as state campaign chair," January 20, 2016
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
- ↑ ‘’DailyMail.com,’’ “Audio recording reveals the moment that senior Republican figure tried to bribe Kari Lake not to run for Senate,” accessed January 25, 2024
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