Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday said the primary process on both theRepublican and Democratic sides is rigged and that he thinks the voters are getting cheated by both parties. Cruz got all 34 delegates in that state without a popular vote, although delegates themselves were voted on. This was given by politicians. “I will say this, it hasn’t been boring”.
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Last August, Republican Party officials in Colorado said they would “cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state’s delegates to support the candidate that wins the caucus vote”.
“If I go to the voters of Colorado, we win Colorado so it’s a crooked, crooked system”, he said. We’re supposed to be: “You vote and the vote means something… and we’ve got to do something about it”, he told an audience estimated by the U.S. Secret Service at about 7,500.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally at JetSmart Aviation Services on Sunday, April 10, 2016, in Rochester, N.Y.
“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.
In an interview on Fox News, Mr Trump said his children, Eric and Ivanka, “feel very, very guilty” not to have registered, saying that they were “unaware of the rules”.
“Coloradans, naturally having that pioneer spirit, gravitate toward someone like Cruz”, said state Rep. Justin Everett, one of Cruz’s pledged delegates.
“We actually had two of our delegates that ran for national convention out of Mesa County who were actually officially endorsed by the Cruz Campaign”.
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.
But New York is a state that awards delegates proportionally, so even that might be something of a boost to Kasich, who insists that the race will come down to the convention. Cruz is trying to eat into Trump’s home-state support in conservative pockets of NY.
In a tweet, Cruz said “65K Coloradans voted-they just voted against Trump”.
Mr Trump has 743 bound delegates and Mr Cruz has 545, according to an Associated Press count.
“What kind of a system is that?…”
Trump further insisted that it was unfair that he had to keep “fighting, fighting, fighting” when he had won hundreds more delegates than Cruz during the primary season.
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Trump also accused the Cruz campaign of offering “goodies”.
