Colorado Trump Delegate Removed And Replaced
Posted on 04/11/2016 1:59:17 PM PDT by justlittleoleme
“All Colorado Republicans [registered more than a month] could vote in precinct caucuses, which chose delegates to congressional and state conventions, who voted for national delegates.” That’s my (unabbreviated) Tweet summarizing the way that Colorado Republicans chose delegates to the national Republican Convention. I should know; as a Colorado Republican I participated in the caucuses.
But apparently, for some Trump supporters, my experience participating in the caucus process is no match for a Drudge headline claiming it never happened. As of the evening of April 10, Drudge claimed on its main page, “Fury as Colorado has no primary or caucus; Cruz celebrates voterless victory.”
So let’s set the facts straight, beginning with my own experiences with the caucus system.
After long being an unaffiliated voter, I registered as a Republican voter late last year, in part so that I could participate in Colorado’s Republican caucus system this year. (I plan to remain a Republican, barring an unforeseen major shift in the political scene.) I looked up how to participate in my precinct caucus on March 1, showed up, participated in the meeting, and successfully ran as an alternate delegate to the county convention on March 19 and to the state convention on April 9.
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A completely fair headline of what happened this year would have been, “Colorado Republicans Select Presidential Delegates the Same Way They Did Last Time.” But the reality of the situation is so much more boring that the trumped up version of it.
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What was the total number of public votes cast in the Colorado caucus????
The system was set up by a tyrannical CO GOP.
they also blocked an attempt to change it just recently (2 years ago?)
This is what the RNC has in mind for all states if Trump loses getting the nomination.
Since we already know a Trump delegate was removed from his fifteen year post as a delegate, what are this nincompoop’s assurances worth?
I guess this is one more thing Cruz has in common with Obama. Certain precincts went to Obama 100%. Cruz does him one better. Now whole states go to Cruz 100%.
Now there’s a trustworthy representation of a state’s system of selection. /s
Just waiting for the exciting discussions of hanging chads to begin on FR.
You know what’s funny?
There are Ted supporters here on FR, FB, and all over the establishmedia who are swearing up and down that there was no caucus - and that’s what the rules said would be the case all along.
You guys really need to get your stories straight.
Cruz Crew working hard. Clean up on aisle 5. LOL.
Amazing how many instant experts we have about a caucus system that has been around a long time.
So what this guy is saying is what just happened in CO is like a winner take all caucus, where the delegates were selected based upon their support of non-support of the candidates.
“What was the total number of public votes cast in the Colorado caucus????”
Exactly. How well known was this process to the average Republican voter?
Why would I do that, it takes time away from my knee-jerk post....
I actually read the article, a lot of misinformation out there. My opinion, the misinformation is by design so to make "stolen election" claims.
Yeah, that comports with what the writer said. Donald just isn’t very popular in Colorado, and the delegates were nominated accordingly.
So it doesn’t even explain about the delegates that were for Trump. This was basically anti-Trump.
You keep posting this but it is a big so what? People always have motivation #lyinTedCruz...
>Yeah, that comports with what the writer said. Donald just isn’t very popular in Colorado, and the delegates were nominated accordingly.
So how many votes were cast for Trump, Cruz, and Kasich?
Cruz is going to be real sad in November when party insiders can’t just hand him the presidency.
All of that was negated when caucus selected state delegates were stricken from the list and replaced with Cruznadians.
It happened and they bragged “we did it”.
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