Ted Cruz has swept Colorado’s delegates and some of South Carolina’s delegates are switching to Cruz. Cruz took all of the Colorado delegates while Trump’s ground campaign floundered again. That story here.
This morning on ‘Fox and Friends’ Trump erupted in a fit of anger over the Colorado Republican leaders choosing Colorado’s candidate. The rules in Colorado have been known since last summer. Voters at the convention voted for Delegates to represent their preferred candidates at the convention in Cleveland. Details of the Colorado rules here.
“I’ve gotten millions … of more votes than [Sen. Ted] Cruz, and I’ve gotten hundreds of delegates more, and we keep fighting, fighting, fighting, and then you have a Colorado where they just get all of these delegates, and it’s not [even] a system,” Trump said, during the Fox News broadcast. “There was no voting. I didn’t go out there to make a speech or anything. There’s no voting.”
“They offer them trips — they offer them all sorts of things, and you’re allowed to do that,” Trump said, of the method by which some woo delegates. “I mean, you’re allowed to offer trips, and you can buy all these votes. What kind of a system is this? Now, I’m an outsider, and I came into the system and I’m winning the votes by millions of votes. But the system is rigged. It’s crooked.”
How is it possible that the people of the great State of Colorado never got to vote in the Republican Primary? Great anger – totally unfair!” wrote Trump, in one Twitter post.
He followed it up with a second tweet: “The people of Colorado had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians. Biggest story in politics. This will not be allowed!”
The Colorado Republican party changed their rules for the presidential preference poll last August. From the Denver Post on August 25th,
The GOP executive committee has voted to cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state’s delegates to support the candidate that wins the caucus vote.”
“It takes Colorado completely off the map” in the primary season, Ryan Call, a former state GOP chairman, told the paper.
Apparently the Trump campaign was unaware of this change, or unaware how to handle it to their advantage. And now they’re furious that Cruz won in Colorado.
Voters at the convention voted for Delegates to represent their preferred candidates at the convention in Cleveland. Details of the Colorado rules here. This could not have been a surprise to the Trump campaign.
Trump on ‘Fox and Friends’ responding to the decision in Colorado to give all of their delegates to Cruz:
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None of this really matters because Trump is up by 34% over Kasich and Cruz in New York and will win Pa,MD,Del, and others.
Cruz is your typical sleazy politician who can’t win fairly so he will do anything to get elected using dirty tactics like he did on Carson and Rubio. Twice his wife filed for divorce charging infedelity and twice she pulled the petitions. I would not be surprised based on Cruz’s pattern with women that his lothario behavior is continuing on the campaign trail.
A cheater is always a cheater!
Debunking more Trump tales:
http://thefederalist.com/2016/04/11/colorado-proves-donald-trump-cant-handle-the-rigors-of-a-campaign/
I don’t understand all the smug pleasure coming from yet another demonstration of insider politics and cronyism. This is the same stuff that people were bitching about a few weeks ago regarding the Virginia delegate selection process in the districts. It is the same stuff that is trying to drive Mark Berg (and others) out of the Republican party. It doesn’t sound like a good business plan for an organization that theoretically wants to “grow the party”.
I agree but growth and open discussion of ideas is not on the agenda around here.
Yes the state party Republican establishment in Colorado is all in for Ted Cruz after denying state voters a preference voting option when the national party required last year that bound delegates on the first roll call vote must cast votes for those assigned delegates. Is anyone on this blog the least bit familiar with the general nature of that state’s Republican party under chairman Steve House. It’s not exactly a hot bed of conservative activity and policy support.
Where do you believe these delegate votes will be cast when (not if) the election is opened up after several unresolved contested roll call votes – to Cruz. Not a chance. I still fail to see the victory in all this, after all we could have been force feed an establishment candidate as we have for the past three election cycles without all this useless debate and name calling and putting 17 individuals through a grinder. Anyone that believes that a Republican establishment run convention under Chairman Paul Ryan is going to get behind Ted Cruz or Donald Trump for that matter to push them over the line is delusional. And the many state conventions packed with dark horse certified party delegates across the country will be put in play. The real losers here will be the millions that voted believing that vote meant something and the damage inflicted on the party itself if this plays out in the manner I believe it will.
They did not hold the straw poll in conjunction with the caucuses because because the poll was supposed to be non-binding (and always has been non-binding). Because of rule changes nationally, CO changed their system.
Lawrence it really is ok to admit you are a Trump supporter. I for one would prefer honesty rather than concern trolling.
Well sorry to disappoint you but not and have never been a Trump supporter but have never believed much in Cruz’s chances to either win the nomination or have any chance against Hillary. So where does that leave me with an impossible choice OR if this unfolds in the manner I’m expecting to see a chance if we were really thinking ahead to offer up with some conservative alternatives we quickly dismissed and left behind early in the primary process early on like Jindal, Walker of even Perry.
If the convention is opened it just doesn’t mean open only for the desired establishment candidate it means open period to all options. But it’s indicative to me of the current state of this blog that thinking along lines like that gets you labeled dishonest or a troll something I don’t believe I have never been.A good blog is about ideas not an echo chamber. Rant, rant Donald Trump, name call, name call if lacking passion for Ted Cruz is not an idea just a waste of time. I will be happy to leave you to it.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433915/donald-trump-lost-delegates-weak-ground-game#comment-2618228487
Good article, thanks for posting it.
Doesn’t bode well for his effectiveness as a president. On the other hand, I hear his campaign did pretty well in Michigan.
From the Trumpster himself:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/426450941206732802