Posted on 04/12/2016 12:11:13 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On March 1, the Colorado Republican party prepared for 60,000 voters to arrive at nearly 3,000 precinct-caucus sites across the state. Those voters would select men and women to attend the party’s county assemblies and congressional district conventions, in the first step of a multi-part process that determined 34 of Colorado’s 37 delegates to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
To hear Donald Trump and his fans tell it, those tens of thousands of Republicans never arrived, never made their choices, and never had the chance to play a role in selecting the party’s delegates. Matt Drudge, the populist Right’s news-aggregating provocateur, contends that Colorado Republicans were given less opportunity to vote than Iraqis. Perhaps, he muses, “George Bush has to invade Colorado to make it a democracy.”
And yet, in high-school cafeterias, churches, and other community centers, registered Republicans in the Centennial State got together and cast votes that March evening. Those they chose went on to county assemblies and district conventions. At the seven congressional district conventions, held the first week in April, the attending delegates selected three national delegates and three alternates who will head to Cleveland. At the county assemblies, held throughout March, attendees selected more than 600 people to compete for the 13 at-large delegate slots filled at the state convention this past weekend. Trump’s tantrum on Twitter obscured the fact that eight of the elected alternates said they would support him if given an opportunity to vote in Cleveland....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Cruz has no one but himself to blame for having to rely on sleaze to win delegates.
http://ariarmstrong.com/2016/04/setting-the-record-straight-about-colorados-republican-caucus/
The above link is a good article explaining the Colorado process.
Now read the article.
F Ted Cruz.
These rules were set 6 years or 6 months ago because these clowns want Paul Ryan & Mitt Romney to run in perpetuity and to screw over the likes of Trump.
It’s hard to belive 6 weeks ago 100% of Colorado GOP supported Ted Cruz. It’s just an anti Trump grouping of insiders.
prepared for 60k, but how many actually showed up and what’s the break down of the votes?
SCREW THAT!!!!
It's nothing but propaganda.
CGato
Yet another Lyin Ted ad.
More gaslighting from the GOPe and their shills in the media. The results in Colorado had nothing to do with ground game and everything to do with a rigged system.
Every other caucus we knew the results and how many ppl voted within 24hrs. For Colorado we still don’t know how many voted and the break down of the votes
Everything about Donald is Sleaze!
>More gaslighting from the GOPe and their shills in the media. The results in Colorado had nothing to do with ground game and everything to do with a rigged system.
The Cruz troll army is out in force today. Every comment on instapundit was attacking Trump and every pro-trump comment was removed. It’s amazing the amount opinion shaping that’s going on.
When did ground game become a euphemism for bribing delegates and gaming the system?
Wyoming and North Dakota do it the same way. Not a precise vote, probably more like “raise your hand” type thing. And those three states the delegates are “soft” - even though they say they are for somebody, they are not legally bound to that person. BTW - in Wyoming Cruz got something like 9 delegates going to the state convention this weekend to Trump’s one. So I imagine Wyoming will be similar and have all delegates supporting Cruz at the national.
Trump can’t run a campaign, but he’s somehow going to make an entire country “great again”?
Trump 2016: a lot like Trump Airlines. Starts with a bang. Ends in bankruptcy.
“...for bribing delegates”
I’d like to hear more about those bribes! Hookers? Free Condoms? Tattoos?
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