Understand that Trumps had a lousy ground game if any at all in many states.......put the blame where it belongs....
Look, in Indiana his own people are complaining they got nothing to work with...
(In Indiana volunteer leader complained regarding Trump....)
“There’s no ground game in Indiana,” .... “I’ve got state team leaders in Indiana who’ve been furious for months … they’ve had.. no campaign material,.. no ground game,.. no nothing... and they’re going into these states 15, 20 days before the primary and it’s just too late.”
Not the same in this case. It should be obvious to anyone that the State chairman went into the day with the intention giving Cruz all the delegates. He even used Twitter with a #NeverTrump hash tag just a few minutes after the convention that said something to the effect of “We did it”. In doing that he was ignoring the members of his party who support different candidates. He had also moved from being a State chairman to being an activist.
The main GOP told Colorado a year ago that they could not have a straw poll at the convention and then ignore the results of the poll. I would assume if I read that that the party needed to have a final caucus or primary vote or possibly apportion delegates from the previous complex round of primaries and caucuses. Instead of taking a vote they abolished the vote and completely ignored all of the previous votes.
In this case, the ground game would make no difference unless the Trump supporters brought pistols, tar and feathers
Actually what happened in Louisiana was as bad as worse.