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So Trump wants to stop all the delegates from an entire state just because they don't want him? What a pathetic buffoon he is.
No, he wants to stop them because his inept campaign failed to follow the rules as suffered the consequences and Trump doesn't think he is required to be treated like anyone else who is a member of the Republican Party.
actually, it was changed this year - not specifically due to Trump, just the fact that there was a 17 person clown car. The CO Republican party didn't want to have to follow the national GOP rules of having their delegates be bound to the winner of the caucus as they recognized that with a caucus fairly early on in the process, they could be bound to a candidate who was no longer in the race. So they eliminated the presidential preference poll, even though that had previously been a part of the caucus process here.
But in any case, that change was made almost a year ago, so a smart and detail oriented businessman should have been prepared for it, rather than seemingly blindsided by it.
Better a clown car than a freak show van.
As you say, all this was done without any concern or special rules to thwart Donald Trump about a year ago. But he is as usual crying like a spoiled child, making a public scene when he does not get his way. And of course in this case he chose NOT TO PARTICIPATE, meaning he has nobody to blame but himself.
They don't calculate the caucus vote by "counties," many of which are virtually uninhabited. They do it by congressional district. Here are the rules of this process, which have been public for quite a long time:
The delegates are selected at seven District Conventions (all this is covered at the link above, with the results) who are later formally confirmed at the State Convention, which was held during the weekend just ended.
For some reason, the Trump campaign chose not to participate. Of course nobody stopped him from doing so, and if he suggests he was impeded in any way, he will be lying through his teeth.
Actually, Trump had a State Chair (James Baker) in charge of Colorado, but he was fired by Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lowendowski last week in connection with the hiring of Trump's new Convention Manager Paul Manafort. Here is an article at NBC News that covers that whole meltdown in the Trump campaign:
Trump's failure in Colorado is due entirely to the actions of his own campaign. Once again, Trump is crying "unfair" like a spoiled child that is accustomed to getting its way by pitching a public fit. That is NOT how the rules work in the Republican nominating process. Nor should they.
Can't you just shorten that to "If Trump is talking, he will be lying through his teeth"? I mean, we don't have to say, "the sun will rise in the East" every day to know that it happens.
The majority of people in both parties do not approve of the corrupt, unrepresentative
and voter-nullifying selection processes.
You're on the wrong side of history if you think the present systems are sustainable.
They are not sustainable. Both will change their methods or be taken out.
We are on the "wrong side of history" for expecting a presidential nominee to follow the same rules as all the other candidates? I'm good with that. A nominee who thinks he is above the rules that are required of all other nominees is someone who believes the laws don't apply to all people equally, and I will fully stand against that nominee to be the POTUS!
If you care about america getting the president they were going to vote in and you are still able to vote then you need to vote trump.
America will not stand for an unelected president.
I never intended to vote Trump and your claim is inaccurate. Trump has NEVER had 100% of the votes cast in the GOP primaries, so how can you say that "they were going to vote in" Trump?
A GOP Colorado Insider Group of 18 people made this decision -- the Colorado Voters never worked out that they would not get to Vote or have a Caucus.
Ted Cruz knew, because he is one of those Political Elite Insiders ...... so he "fixed" it so that only his supporters would be "chosen" by the select few. How can people be so dumb as to allow a very few Political Elite to take away their Vote? It boggles the mind.
I don't understand how politics works and my candidate doesn't either. We were robbed because we didn't follow the rules and that means that Cruz MUST have cheated because his campaign did.
I like how they do it in Colorado in the sense that the parties should just decide who they want to run. No primaries, just get together at the convention and settle on the candidate to represent your platform.
Does Trump ever take any responsibility for anything? Yet he thinks he should be POTUS? He's way too irresponsible and immature.
"...In the hours before Saturday's vote, Trump supporters distributed glossy white flyers urging people to vote for a slate of candidates to fill 13 statewide delegate slots. But several names were misspelled or assigned the wrong ballot number. The mistakes were exposed at the worst possible moment: just as Colorado Republicans were walking on to the arena floor to take seats and prepare to cast ballots. Trump volunteers frantically printed new lists with new names and ballot numbers -- but those lists also had mistakes..."
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