Media reports surfaced in the wake of Louisiana’s party convention that Cruz had managed to secure spots for loyalists among the uncommitted delegates, and had secured pledges that Rubio’s delegates, who are free to vote for anyone on the first ballot.
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Trump now has 743 delegates, while Cruz has 545 and Kasich has 143, according to USA Today’s delegate leaderboard.
But it appears that party insiders, who control the delegate selection process, are intent on selecting delegates who are anti-Trump and who, when free in later balloting to vote for other candidates, will have their way on Saturday.
The frontrunner has a poor record of recruiting delegates. “We demand that every Colorado delegate be thrown out of the convention because they are Trojan horse delegates and they don’t belong”.
Cruz has been acutely aware that the contest boils down to a delegate battle.
A state delegate chosen in Colorado’s controversial caucus says there’s a reason Ted Cruz won and Donald Trump lost, and it wasn’t cheating.
Cruz insisted that he won them fair and square because the state chose to cancel their primary previous year, and the Texas senator’s campaign was simply better prepared.
“The Republican National Committee, they should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this kind of crap to happen”, he told a crowd of supporters in upstate NY on Tuesday.
Noting that the delegates will make final decisions anyway, Haugland said, “Why stir things up?”
In fact, the Associated Press photo of Cruz above shows him speaking to Colorado Republicans at their April 9 convention.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow predicted on Friday that Donald Trump would not score the win in the Republican Party’s in primary next month – and that that should concern him. “I think the people of Colorado did vote, but they were so high, they completely forgot”. It’s about the fact that Coloradoans did not get to vote.
Erin Behrens said she didn’t realize how badly rigged the system was until the result on Saturday. With Trump’s path to the 1,237 delegates needed to avoid a floor fight offering little room for error, those three delegates could be the difference between a clinched nomination and a messy floor fight.
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“Go win your delegates and get your numbers”.
