How so?
How so?
I quote selected excerpts from a Denver Post article from Aug. 25, 2015:
Colorado will not vote for a Republican candidate for president at its 2016 caucus after party leaders approved a little-noticed shift that may diminish the state's clout in the most open nomination contest in the modern era.
"It takes Colorado completely off the map" in the primary season, said Ryan Call, a former state GOP chairman.
Republicans still will hold precinct caucus meetings in early 2016 to begin the process of selecting delegates for the national convention — but the 37 delegates are not pledged to any specific candidate.
State Republican Party Chairman Steve House said the party's 24-member executive committee made the unanimous decision Friday — six members were absent — to skip the preference poll.
The move, he said, would give Colorado delegates the freedom to support any candidate eligible at the Cleveland convention in July.
You can read the rest of the article at the source. However, the pertinent fact is that the delegates were not supposed to be bound going into the national convention.
Then, suddenly, the CO GOP held a state convention to select bound delegates--disregarding its own rules from August stating that they would not be bound. So I have to wonder, when did they decide to have a state convention, and how much advance notice did they give the Cruz campaign vs. the Trump campaign? If you read between the lines in this article, it would seem that the Cruz camp had plenty of time to prepare, while the Trump camp did not. Putting all of this together, it looks a lot like the CO GOP rigged the process.