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Cruz accuses Trump of ‘threatening the delegates’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on April 11, 2016 in Albany, New York.

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Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz called out chief rival Donald Trump for “whining”.

Cruz said he will fare better when the race shifts back west to Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana, before finishing in California on June 7.

“There was no voting”.

“I don’t think costs will prevent Colorado lawmakers from coming together in a bipartisan way to address the concern that we have heard from across the state“, Garnett said.

“The people out there are going insane, in the Denver area and Colorado itself”, Mr Trump said on Fox News.

If one wanted to point to the campaign that is adroit at the political art of the deal, one has to fix one’s attention on the Cruz campaign.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ratcheted up his criticism of the Republican Party and its process for selecting delegates for the GOP nomination, calling it “not democracy at its finest”.

“Apparently, when anyone votes against him, it’s an act of theft”, Cruz said on Beck’s online radio show. Most delegates are pledged to their respective candidates for the first ballot.

The rules for choosing convention delegates vary by state and are coming under more intense scrutiny than usual because of the closeness of the Republican race.

The Cruz campaign did not immediately respond to Trump but spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said on Sunday the allegations were “more sour grapes” from Trump.

“Let’s wait until the state convention before we make that decision”, Branstad told reporters in discussing prospects for his possible participation in what could become the first open GOP national convention since 1976 – a meeting in Kansas City where Branstad was an alternate delegate.

Trump’s new convention manager Paul Manafort took his criticism of the Cruz operation one step further: “You go to his county conventions and you see the Gestapo tactics, the scorched earth tactics – we’re going to be filing several protests because the reality is, they are not playing by the rules”. “It’s not the way it’s supposed to work”. They offer them trips, they offer them all sorts of things and you’re allowed to do that.

The email blast comes on the heels of controversy over the Republican Party nominating process and real delegates to the Republican National Convention.

After a shutout here, Donald Trump is enraged. Would you vote for me?

In Virginia – a state where Trump won the primary – he has missed the deadlines to assemble lists of potential delegates.

Monday night marked a return for Trump to large arenas, venues his campaign had temporarily avoided for their tendency to attract protesters.

She said she didn’t understand the delegate process and believes that the victor should be decided by popular vote.

Trump’s troubles even extend to two of his children, with Eric and Ivanka both unable to vote for him.

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Trump tied the Colorado controversy to next week’s NY primary, where polls show him holding a big lead over Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets the crowd at a rally for his campaign in New York