No Colorado Primary, Trump throws a shit fit

[frigidmagi]

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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump erupted on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning after a weekend that saw Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas sweep all of Colorado’s 34 delegates without any votes being cast by citizens in a traditional primary process.

“I’ve gotten millions … of more votes than [Sen. Ted] Cruz, and I’ve gotten hundreds of delegates more, and we keep fighting, fighting, fighting, and then you have a Colorado where they just get all of these delegates, and it’s not [even] a system,” Trump said, during the Fox News broadcast. “There was no voting. I didn’t go out there to make a speech or anything. There’s no voting.”

His comments came after Cruz won the remaining 13 delegates at the weekend’s convention, bringing his total for the state to 34, an outcome he described as unfair and just shy of illegal.

“They offer them trips — they offer them all sorts of things, and you’re allowed to do that,” Trump said, of the method by which some woo delegates. “I mean, you’re allowed to offer trips, and you can buy all these votes. What kind of a system is this? Now, I’m an outsider, and I came into the system and I’m winning the votes by millions of votes. But the system is rigged. It’s crooked.”

The televised remarks followed a weekend of tweets expressing similarly critical views.

“How is it possible that the people of the great State of Colorado never got to vote in the Republican Primary? Great anger – totally unfair!” wrote Trump, in one Twitter post.

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He followed it up with a second tweet: “The people of Colorado had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians. Biggest story in politics. This will not be allowed!”

It was last August when officials with the Republican Party in Colorado decided they would not let voters take part in the early nomination process.

The Denver Post reported Aug. 25: “The GOP executive committee has voted to cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state’s delegates to support the candidate that wins the caucus vote.”

“It takes Colorado completely off the map” in the primary season, Ryan Call, a former state GOP chairman, told the paper.

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In late February, just before Super Tuesday, the Post published a scathing editorial, saying the party blundered on the 2016 presidential caucus:

“GOP leaders have never provided a satisfactory reason for forgoing a presidential preference poll, although party chairman Steve House suggested on radio at one point that too many Republicans would otherwise flock to their local caucus.

“Imagine that: party officials fearing that an interesting race might propel thousands of additional citizens to participate. But of course that might dilute the influence of elites and insiders. You can see why that could upset the faint-hearted.”

[LadyTevar]

They shut down the GOP primary?!?!? Is that even LEGAL??!??!
I'd ask what they were smoking, but it's Colorado....

Still, how can they justify not having a GOP primary election? How can they just say "ok, no populace vote, we just do this", and not have the entire State go nuts?

[frigidmagi]

It's perfectly legal. The Republican Party is under no obligation to hold any kind of election for it's party candidate. Hell in most of the developed world they don't have primaries. The party chooses who they want to run and you don't like it you can vote for the other guy.

For that matter this wasn't a decision by the national party but by the state party that they made in August of 2015. Trump had every chance to know about it and try to make his case to the delegates but didn't because he didn't bother to learn and has a shit ground game. So this is basically him being a whiner.

[Lys]

Trump is a whiny bitch, he doesn't get to complain that the system is rigged when it favours him to the tune of having 48% of the delegates on 37% of the vote. Honestly the entire GOP has had this debacle coming by their own hand, as the rotten boroughs that are have been benefiting Trump so heavily were created with the intent of protecting establishment candidates and are now backfiring horribly. People may not like the DNC's superdelegates, but at least they're honest about their existence and the purpose they serve, as opposed to having their effect hidden in obscure delegate allocation rules.

Seriously this whole primary season has made it abundantly clear to me that the Republican primary system is insane and broken. They may be under no obligation to provide a reasonable and functional primary, but neither am i under any obligation to accept it without criticism. The whole thing is a mess. Really, it's amazing to me how perceptions have flipped, before it was the Republicans with the efficient and well-oiled party machinery and the Democrats who had a dysfunctional circus, and now it's the other way around.

[frigidmagi]

By all means criticize, but I wanted to make it clear what's actually going on here.