“In before the “These rule set a year ago and nobody complained” brown shirts start defending the indefensible.”
The State parties get to determine their own methods. Kinda like zoning laws and building regulations. Either Trump’s people did not perform due diligence or Trump thought he was going to just steamroll his way through things by calling people “stupid,” or threatening to sue everybody.
Or Cruz paid local bosses to rig the results. There were Trump supporters at the convention, lots of them and yet not one single Trump delegate was elected? Preposterous.
Louisiana is more egregious than Colorado because Mr Trump won that primary but Senator Cruz paid off, or otherwise convinces party bosses to give him all of the unassigned delegates that have traditionally been assigned proportionally. So Cruz lost the election but ended up with the same number of delegates.
The hue and cry “But those are the rules” doesn’t fly in the face of unethical parliamentary maneuvers to deny delegates to a candidate or to overturn election results. Mr Trump was not going to get any delegates at the Colorado convention because the state party chairman was going to use whatever means needed to prevent that - and he did and then tweeted about it.
Saying “Those are the rules” in such cases where the rules are being manipulated is logically the same as a prison camp guard saying “I was just following orders”
I’m sorry if you disagree with that because it is the truth. If Senator Cruz manages to get the nomination he has alienated 30%+ of the Republican base. He will not beat PIAPS because many Trump supporters that had him listed as their 2nd choice just moved him him to below PIAPS and Sanders.