Trump has repeatedly blasted Colorado’s Republican leadership since this weekend’s state convention, and did so again Monday at a rally in Albany, N.Y., calling Cruz’s win “a total fix”. “The people out there are going insane, in the Denver area and Colorado itself”, he told Fox. “This is an example of Donald Trump managing, and the type of leadership he will bring to the presidency in November”, Manafort said in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
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Cruz’s success at the Colorado convention makes it more hard for Trump to secure 1,237 delegates, the majority he needs to clinch the Republican nomination.
Guy Short, a Cruz backer in Colorado who was elected as a Republican national convention delegate for the sixth time, disputed Mr Trump’s allegations.
The mogul admitted the pair missed the deadline for registering as Republicans to vote in next week’s NY primary.
Cruz stated 21 delegates turned to him following seven congressional assemblies and thirteen came in from the state convention on Saturday. “We’re going to be filing several protests because reality is, you know, they are not playing by the rules”. Kasich, writes the Washington Post, plans to indict both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, taking aim at Cruz’s “value-added” tax and proposals from Trump including “draconian tariffs” and ending defense partnerships in Asia.
“It’s not a system”, Trump said of Colorado’s conventions.
“Coming out of the convention you’ve got to raise a tremendous amount of money to campaign and it’s pretty tough to raise money if you’re not the confirmed candidate”, said John Truscott, a former state delegate who now has the public relations firm Truscott Rossman.
Beck is optimistic about the first, bitterly opposed to the second and deeply concerned about the last, which he predicts would follow an open convention that seeks to try to pick anyone except Cruz or Trump as the nominee. “He has a pattern of whining when he isn’t winning”, she said in a statement. While Trump continued to complain about the decision, on Saturday Cruz simply stated, “This has been a remarkable year”. ABC’s Jon Karl is in Albany, new York, with the latest. She also recorded a series of videos urging her father’s supporters’ to vote, including one that explained to Iowa voters how to find their caucus sites and how the process worked.
NY is the next major delegate contest, with 95 up for grabs on April 19.
A Trump campaign staffer told The Guardian that their numbers were right at the time of printing but thought the problem was caused by the state party’s constant revisions to the delegate order.
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Some speculate that the error on the ballot could have led Donald Trump voters to choose delegates who support Cruz.
