Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday blasted an error-plagued state GOP convention over the weekend that resulted in the election of some delegates who will be bound to front-runner Donald Trump — but are loyal to Ted Cruz.

As he has in other states, the Texas senator managed to corral delegates nominally pledged to Trump, who won the state’s Republican primary in March by a wide margin. But Brewer said on “The Laura Ingraham Show” that Cruz’s success in Arizona went beyond campaign organization. She noted that the party pressed ahead despite the fact that she and others were not listed on the official Trump slate.

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“They acknowledged that it wasn’t on the slate and proceeded anyway, and certified the results. But it’s wrong,” she said. “I believe I was cheated. I think Donald Trump was cheated. And I think the people of Arizona were cheated.”

For Brewer, it was the first election she has lost since 1970.

“Unfortunately, we lost, and that’s the bottom line,” she said. “Whatever the reason is, it’’ very mysterious.”

Maria Brandon, an Arizona woman who ran unsuccessfully to be a delegate at the state convention, watched the proceedings as a guest but could not cast a ballot. She told LifeZette that she had expected the convention hall to be evenly divided by supporters of Trump and Cruz.

“The real shock was that the enthusiasm overwhelmingly was in favor of Trump,” she said. “How did this happen when it was apparent everyone was for Trump? Everyone was chanting for Trump.”

Brandon said someone recognized the names of Cruz partisans on the delegate list that the Trump campaign was handing out. A Trump aide promised to pass out a revised list. At one point, she added, the state party chairman acknowledged that at least one Trump hopeful had been left off the ballot. But by that time, many already had voted. For the first time, votes were allowed to be cast with electronic devices.

Brandon said she and her husband had been torn between Trump and Cruz. But she said she came away from the convention believing it had not reflected the will of the people.

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“What we don’t like is the lack of democracy,” she said.

Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who supports Cruz, argued on “The Laura Ingraham Show” that Trump is the victim only of his own lack of organization.

“In Arizona, as you noted, we flat-out beat them,” he said. “I mean, we just had more people show up. We had more activists organizing and making phone calls.”

Cuccinelli said that in Massachusetts, where Trump won the proportional primary, he ended up placing more of his loyalists in the state delegation to the GOP convention.

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“He benefitted in the other direction there. I didn’t hear anybody complaining about that,” he said. “Donald Trump won three-quarters of the delegates (despite winning a little less than half of the vote). And I’m not complaining. I’m just pointing it out.”

Cuccinelli acknowledged, however, that Trump has been able to rally public opinion on the issue.

“They have successfully pulled this off,” he said. “Instead of competing, they accuse everyone who beats them of being cheaters and members of the Establishment. I was called an Establishment hack this weekend.”

Brewer said she hopes Trump is able to win the 1,237 delegates he needs to avoid the messy, contested convention where such delegate games will come into play. If he has a majority, he will win cleanly.

“We just have to work really hard to make sure that Mr. Trump, which he’s going to do, wins Indiana and goes to California and [can] be on the first ballot and win this election,” he said.