Social media posts, along with Cruz’s campaign website, reveal that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) supporters in the Colorado Republican Party were responsible for crushing an effort to give Colorado the ability to vote in a state primary.
In May of 2015, four Colorado Senate Republicans killed an initiative “to create a presidential primary in 2016,” reported the Denver Post. “Under the bill, Colorado would have held a presidential primary in March that ran parallel with the state’s complicated caucus system… when it came before the Senate Appropriations Committee, four Republicans voted to kill the bill with three Democrats supporting it.”
The four Republicans who voted against the initiative were Sen. Kevin Grantham, Sen. Kent Lambert, Sen. Laura Woods, and Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg.
The four are part of the Cruz leadership team in CO.
That is just as well because there is nothing wrong with conducting the nominating process for a political party by way of the caucus system.
The idea that there is some sort of plot conceived by Trump supporters in May to be executed in April is preposterous unless they had second sight. Trump had ample opportunity, indeed equal opportunity, to participate in the caucus system as he would've had in a primary system. Trump opted out, end of story.
