Wisconsin Republicans apparently dislike Cruz so much that they are trying to cheat him out of selecting delegates that their own Wisconsin Republican Party constitution mandates that he get:
RESURGENT – After a big win in Wisconsin earlier this month, it looks like the all-important statewide delegate selection process could leave Team Cruz at a serious disadvantage. I’m told by several people familiar with the situation that the constitution of the Republican Party of Wisconsin gives the presidential campaign that wins the state’s popular vote the prerogative of picking 15 of the 18 statewide delegates and 18 of the state’s 18 alternate delegates to the Republican National Convention.
Though Governor Scott Walker endorsed Ted Cruz and clearly has a close working relationship with the Wisconsin GOP, the Republican Party of Wisconsin released its final statewide delegate list on Tuesday morning, and sources tell me the list is not what the Cruz campaign wanted.
It seems that not only did the state GOP ignore the Cruz campaign’s delegate list, but the state GOP wants to put Rubio and Kasich supporters on the delegate slate. Former Gov. Tommy Thompson led the Kasich campaign in Wisconsin and he’s headed to Cleveland as a delegate from Wisconsin. Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos was the Rubio campaign co-chair in Wisconsin until Rubio dropped out, and has repeatedly expressed his distaste for Cruz, going so far as to “endorse” Cruz before the primary because “our only hope is going to a brokered convention.”
The rest of the list – minus Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, state Sen. Duey Stroebel and state Rep. Dean Knudson – is a miscellaneous collection of party insiders who stayed on the sidelines, outright opposed, or barely supported Cruz during the primary. The list is evidence of what Katie Glueck wrote about at the Politico just before Wisconsin’s primary: some of the GOP establishment in the state was holding its nose to vote for Cruz, but didn’t like him at all.
Erick Erickson tells us that only four delegates out of the list Cruz submitted for the selection process were on the list. And NONE of his submissions were put on the alternate delegate list.
What crap. It’d be one thing if they were honoring their own rules, and Cruz just didn’t win the selection process. But it’s entirely another for them to break their rules just to ensure Kasich and Rubio delegates become part of the process.
This is why we hate the establishment. Trump wants you to think that Cruz is part of the establishment, or at least backed by it. But reality tells us this simply isn’t true.
While Trumpertantrum lies about being cheated, it appears Cruz is actually being cheated and I hope he can appeal this and force them to obey their own rules.