A series of tweets from Donald Trump in the wake of losing all 34 republican delegates to Ted Cruz at Saturday’s state GOP Convention, claim Colorado voters were cheated.
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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”. Trump has said the process that awarded Cruz all of Colorado’s delegates was “rigged” and that the will of the voters is being thwarted by political insiders. “This was given by politicians”. “Honestly, I do wonder”.
Trump’s response? After bragging about how he is now beating Cruz by “millions of votes” and “hundreds of delegates”, Trump made a decision to “blame [Colorado] on the establishment”. “There was no voting”. I didn’t go out there to make a speech or anything, there’s no voting.
Many Colorado Democrats and Republicans agree with Donald Trump about one thing: There has to be a better way for Colorado to select its presidential nominee.
Trump has 743 bound delegates and Cruz has 545, according to an Associated Press count.
Correcting the errors would be unlikely to tip the scales in Trump’s favor, as Cruz holds the lion’s share of support among local party leaders in the room.
“We’re going to be filing several protests because reality is, you know, they are not playing by the rules”, he said.
Trump is the only candidate with a realistic path to the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the convention. But both are at risk of not acquiring enough delegates for a first-ballot victory, leaving many delegates free to switch their votes on later ballots. But the second slate reportedly had mistakes as well.
Speaking on a former Air Force base, Trump also got big applause when he called for building up the military.
And the only other states where he has a reasonable chance of exceeding expectations are IN and delegate-rich California.
Trump is just ramping up his operation, but in some states he’s too late.
“Their friends come around and they’re like, ‘Hi Mr. Kasich, ‘ ” Kasich said. But they’re warming to him – Bush, Mitt Romney, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. “That’s not the way democracy is supposed to work”.
“They have smartly looked at the rules”, she offers. And you’re allowed to do that. Would you vote for me? What kind of a system is that?…
Trump was the target on Monday of a new ad by the Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton, that listed Trump’s comments on women, Mexican immigrants and Muslims. He also said he would not become speaker of the House. “Trump has to win on the first ballot”. “And yet he’s not winning. It’s a rigged system”.
When asked whether he has discussed the matter with Priebus, The Hill reported that Trump only shrugged his shoulders before saying: “Whatever happens, happens”.
Trump’s team is only now starting to engage in the delegate selection process, the choosing of the actual people who will attend and vote at the convention. I’m coming in to do something positive.
I guess they’ll let bygones be bygones. And the people out in Colorado are going nuts.
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. This is what our country’s all about, I guess.
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Sanders has won seven of the last eight Democratic contests but trails front-running Hillary Clinton, who garners support from “super delegates” designated from party officials separate from the state-by-state caucuses and primaries.
