But after the first vote, they’re up for grabs.
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But Trump is crying foul on the Cruz campaign’s tactics.
Larry Lindsey, one Trump supporter who was turned back from the state convention, got so angry he posted a video on YouTube in which he set his Republican registration on fire.
Republican leaders decided last year to cancel a straw poll at this year’s caucus.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has described as “rigged” the way the U.S. state of Colorado picks its presidential nominee.
Monday morning on Fox and Friends, Trump repeated that notion, calling the primary system “rigged” and “crooked”.
“You know, I’ve gotten millions more votes”.
Mr Cruz’s campaign has worked effectively in states where the delegate allocation process is more complex, such as Colorado, where the USA senator from Texas picked up 34 delegates on Saturday at the state Republican convention.
Facing a break in the primary calendar, the Republican presidential candidates are fighting over convention delegates and the process of selecting them. “In fact, I spent thousands of dollars of my own money campaigning to become a delegate because it’s that important to make sure Donald Trump is NOT our nominee”.
“If we get blown out in the fall – which I think we would with both Cruz and Trump – we could lose the United States Senate”, Kasich said.
Trump has a similar lead in Pennsylvania where he clinches 48% to Kasich’s 22 percent and Cruz’s 20 percent, according to the Fox poll of likely Republican primary voters in Pennsylvania. “And we’re just not going to let it happen, we’re not gonna let it happen”, said Trump.
Trump, who has won more contests than Cruz, is consistently getting out-hustled on the delegate front by Cruz. Though Trump still has a lead in delegate count, the recent string of Cruz victories means there’s a chance for a brokered convention in July if Trump can’t get the delegates to win the nomination outright.
That was also the feeling of a disgusted Colorado Trump delegate who claimed he was shut out of the convention floor resulting in a clean sweep by Cruz of all 13 convention delegates.
Trump’s new advisor Paul Manafort, a veteran political strategist now in charge of nomination efforts, went further Sunday, calling Cruz’s strategy “Gestapo tactics”.
Cruz’s campaign spokeswoman Catherina Frazier said their campaign won “because we’ve put in the hard work to build a superior organization”.
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The swing comes barely a week before New York’s April 19 primary.
