[Hoodat]

This whole process is about selecting delegates to the national convention. That holds true in Colorado, New York, Wisconsin, Florida, Idaho, etc. In Colorado, that process began on March 1 when precinct caucuses were held all over the state. In order for a person to be a delegate at the national convention, one must first attend a precinct caucus.

From that caucus, individuals are selected to represent that caucus at the state convention. It is at these precinct caucuses that candidate supporters cast their votes for a designated attendee willing to go to the state convention and support that candidate. If a candidate's supporters do not show up at these precinct caucuses, then the likelihood of that candidate having representative support at that state convention are greatly diminshed.

This is what happened to Trump. His supporters simply failed to show up at the March 1 caucuses. GOPe supporters showed up. Cruz supporters showed up. Kasich supporters showed up. But there was no Trump organization on the ground in Colorado to whip up support when it counted the most - March 1, election day.

Cruz had a Colorado campaign chairman in place in December 2015 with one goal in mind - securing delegates. Trump didn't put one in place until a few weeks after the precinct caucuses were already over.

[Neu Pragmatist]

Don’t bother spewing that nonsense ... Trump could have poured every resource he had into Colorado , the result would have been the same ...it’s quite clear that they had no intention of letting Trump have any delegates out of Colorado, regardless ...Trump knew this and was smart in not wasting precious resources on the rigged Colorado system...but yeah , we all know, it’s the “rules”