Trumpertantrum is continuing his whine-fest this morning over Cruz’s big win in Colorado, still blaming the GOP for his ignorance of the primary rules. In fact he just tweeted a video of this ANGWY TRUMPER burning his Republican Party registration:
This is happening all over our country—great people being disenfranchised by
politicians. Repub party is in trouble! https://t.co/wNXRqVl9Uu— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 11, 2016
Cruz is proving to be a master of this game of getting delegates chosen that support him and all Trump can do in the aftermath is whine about it.
Here’s what happened in Colorado according to the local Fox affiliate in Denver:
To the casual observer of politics, the details of what went awry for the Trump campaign in Colorado Springs might seem like an irrelevant debate over minutia. National delegate ballot positions, to be exact.
Ballot positions were assigned to more than 600 people who ran for the final 13 delegate slots at the GOP convention on Saturday.
To narrow the field, each presidential campaign printed up slates listing the national delegate candidates that they had endorsed. Those slates were handed out by volunteers at the convention.
But the slates put out by the Trump campaign contained numerous errors when it matched names to ballot numbers. At the Congressional District 7 convention Thursday night where three convention delegates were selected, the slate printed by the Trump campaign contained the names of two delegate candidates supporting Trump who weren’t even running in that district.
On the first slate printed by Trump campaign for Saturday’s election — which detailed the names and ballot numbers of 26 people who were running to be Trump delegates at the convention — more than a half dozen names were listed with inaccurate ballot numbers.
If you were a Trump supporter at the convention hoping to support his slate of delegates, that mattered — a lot — because the paper ballots that attendees used to cast their votes late Saturday afternoon contained only numbers, not the names of each delegate candidate.
The Trump campaign printed a second slate that was meant to correct the corresponding numbers and names that were wrong on the first slate. But there were mistakes on the second as well.
The campaigns of Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich did not have the same problems — suggesting the mistakes could have amounted to printing errors by the Trump campaign on their slates.
Trump’s team was falling all over itself with error after error during these delegate elections. Most of the problems were on their end.
There were a few other problems reported:
But the ballot distributed by the state party did include at least one clerical error: There was no bubble on the ballot for delegate candidate No. 379 (who was running as a Trump delegate, according to the state party list). Instead in the spot where No. 379 should have appeared, there was a second bubble for No. 378 (who was running as an unpledged delegate).
Another wrinkle: Inside the convention program printed by the state party, the list of candidates running for the 13 national delegate slots (and their corresponding ballot numbers) only went up to No. 588, even though there were 619 candidates.
The state GOP printed a supplemental ballot and placed the names and ballot positions of the remaining candidates on two screens above the stage, but Trump supporters said that not every attendee got one.
At the end of the day the fault here lies with the Trump campaign for not doing the research and preparation needed to win in Colorado. But instead of taking his lumps and learning from them, he whines and complains that the process is corrupt and what not, suggesting even on Fox and Friends this morning that Colorado changed their rules last summer to help Cruz.
How ludicrous and juvenile. Trump needs to man up or get out of the race.