>But why knock Ted Cruz and call him a cheater when all he’s doing is familiarizing himself with the primary process and working to garner the necessary delegates to win?
CO wasn’t cheating? A state where Trump is polling at 44% and Cruz got all the delegates? Heck even the GOP there is claiming their “process was flawed” and needs a do over. Cruz cheats all day long.
RE: CO wasn’t cheating? A state where Trump is polling at 44% and Cruz got all the delegates?
No, CO was NOT cheating.
The primary rules by which Colorado selects their delegates were main known over a year ago. It was not hidden or a secret.
If you do not familiarize yourself with the Colorado rules, you can’t blame your opponent for taking advantage of this.
Trump has wrongly charged that Cruz colluded with the establishment to “steal” Colorado. In this way, Trump hopes to seal his claim to be the sole aggrieved outsider. He says that working together, they cheated and disenfranchised millions of voters.
Trump knows full well that Colorado wasn’t stolen and that he began there on a level playing field with Cruz, but he didn’t do the necessary groundwork to compete. He never had a presence in Colorado.
But he also knows that his supporters will believe otherwise and become more entrenched if he cries foul loudly enough. He hopes to draw supporters away from Cruz and woo the undecided in upcoming states by leveraging these allegations in service to establishment/Cruz conspiracy theories.
If there were actual cheating going on, I would decry it from the highest mountain, but it is just as wrong to allege cheating when it isn’t occurring for your own political benefit. Could we please dispense with these ridiculous allegations and get on with this process without further enraging the voters?
If you prefer Trump, that’s your prerogative. But I cannot let this go un-answered.