Cruz has no problem with voters in all those reliably red states in the west. Voters do vote on these delegates. Every registered Republican can participate in the conventions.
So your theory is that when those state legislators and party big-wigs were selected a couple years ago— that the voters were selecting Cruz over Trump, so there is no need to allow them to vote now? Let’s leave it up to the 500 people in the establishment?
I think we can agree if you are reasonable.. You admit that we don’t need or want 500 establishment guys selecting our nominee in place of the voters and this process should change for the next election cycle.. and I will agree that Cruz has played by the rules and that these votes are as legitimate as any Trump has earned..
“Every registered Republican can participate in the conventions.”
I think you meant to say that every registered Republican can vote in their local precinct caucus to select committeemen to represent their best interests at the county convention. I’m pretty sure that it is just those delegates that they elected from their precinct that can vote at the county.
And yet, in a state with 140,357 registered Republicans, less than a thousand showed up to vote, a turnout of a fraction of a percent.
No matter how you try to spin it, something stinks about that number, compared to average turnout in other states.