Posted on 04/13/2016 2:23:08 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Cruz's resounding win in Colorado's GOP contest this weekend provided fresh evidence that Trump's campaign is still scrambling to catch up in the delegate hunt.
But the Trump campaign's threat that they might challenge the Colorado results at the Republican National Convention showed something else: Their campaign is gearing up for battle in Cleveland -- and no error will go unnoticed.
The debate over the national delegate selection in Colorado this weekend qualified as the very definition of inside baseball.............
READ: The Colorado delegate process has to be see to be believed
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
The state of Colorado is about evenly divided between registered Republicans and Democrats, each with just under a million voters. Plus, the largest group is over One Million registered Independents.
These independent voters are probably happy they had nothing to do with this charade. CO's closed party delegate games limited to a handful of people will be instrumental in losing Colorado's electoral votes in the fall. A candidate like Trump, with a great deal of cross-over appeal could win Colorado with repubs. & indies outnumbering the democrats in the REAL election.
This election consisted of a group of less than 8,500 (unsure of exact amount) people who could could afford to travel to Colorado Springs. They voted from a group of 600 available delegates. Each spoke for a whopping total of 10 seconds to win their delegate positions. "Some stood on stage holding signs with their ballot number, others used props or catchy slogans. In the end, party politics made the likelihood of getting their number marked on the ballot very low. The presidential candidates all had slates with predetermined candidates for the national convention. And the chances got worse if a state delegate was publicly supporting any candidate not named Ted Cruz-"
"I win a state in votes and then get non-representative delegates because they are offered all sorts of goodies by Cruz campaign. Bad system!" Trump tweeted Sunday.
"How is it possible that the people of the great State of Colorado never got to vote in the Republican Primary?" Trump tweeted Sunday evening. "Great anger - totally unfair!"
Disqualify Cruzer delegates? The rules are the rules Cruzer Scum!
Unseat the entire Colorado delegation.
Penalize them by slicing their delegation by 50% for 2020.
Or even better, take away their herb for a week, that’ll fix em.
Nobody has said that the 65000 voters went to the state convention. They voted in the precinct caucuses last month.
Those 8500 people were chosen by the voters to represent them in said state convention. If Donald was really concerned about this whole process he would have objected to it on March 1st, when it started. Instead he was unaware, of the process and procedure. Of course it could be that he was unconcerned about it, which goes to show the level of commitment from Donald.
Awesome
While there were precinct caucuses, there were no presidential caucuses.
Others besides Trump are looking at the legality of what they have done in Colorado.
From another article, I’ve yet to digest.
“A presidential convention related filing that the Colorado GOP submitted to the Republican National Committee could cost the Colorado Republicans their delegation. The document in question is the Rule 16(f) filing which includes information on rules, policies, and procedures covering the electing, binding, and certification of delegates leading up to the national convention.”
Continue to nuance this to death so you Cruz supporters find this acceptable. I’d be more worried about the negative effect this is starting to have around the country.
Oh and BTW, the Wall St cronies are getting together to have a meeting on how best to save Ted Cruz’s campaign. Yeah, Ted Cruz the outsider and principled conservative, my arse.
CGato
You do not understand how Colorado has been running things for almost a century. For a brief time in the 2000’s they had a primary, but they did not like the turnout, there was no spike in turnout as was supposed to happen. So they went back to the way they had done it before. I am not even a candidate, on a campaign, or a voter in that state and I looked up the rules on how everything worked back in February.
None of us, including Trump, understood how deceitful and corrupt the Colorado Republican Party has become.
I assume you are a Coloradan, did you attend or attempt to participate?
And where and when did the tens of thousands of other folks go to select the other 24 delegates?
No one planned for Jeb to be sidelined, but Trump did it anyway.
So Jeb dropped out.
Since he has suspended his campaign, they needed an insider to be a place holder for the delegates and that turns out to be Cruz, who will control those delegates until the Convention, then, after a few slight of hand tricks, they are slated to go back to Jeb, or maybe Mitt.
Such incredible naivete. He said nothing until now so he'd have an example and a million angry people to support his words. Of course he knew how Colorado works. But what was he going to do about it before now? What COULD he do but draw attention to its corruption? But the best way to do that is to let it show itself - which he did.
He smacked Colorado so hard it's ringing like a bell, and Cruzbots don't even see it.
LOL!
<< “...people were chosen by the voters to represent them in said state convention.” >>****************
Represent them for what? LOL!
More pot? Lower taxes? Higher taxes?
Were these 8500 “people” TRUMP people? Cruz people? Paul Ryan?
Delegate seating disputes are usually the biggest dramas at modern conventions. Paul delegates last cycle, Mississippi delegates in ‘64, even during an Eisenhower convention. Delegate seating has even gone to court.
oh, so why didn’t trump do the same thing in North Dakota?
Or Wyoming?
I want to thank you for calling me naive, because the way I take naive is that I believe in the morals of Frank Capra movies, that we are still the America of Washington, Madison, Lincoln, and Reagan.
Doesn't change the fact that there were no presidential caucuses. Cruz got the same # of caucus votes as Trump & Kasich: NONE.
He has dropped to third in most Polls and Today just lost the Italian American Vote
No I am not from Colorado, but I still managed to read the rules on how things worked there before Donald Trump, or understood them better.
Colorado had a 32% turnout in the 2014 election.
Must have been the ‘legalization of the herb’ big turnout.
Lots of states have low turnouts, like Iowa with 5% and some as low as 1-3%.
Those are the states the GOP can control.
Those are Cruz’s win states.
Colorado deliberately did not hold an election in order to manipulate the vote.
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