After a soundly defeat in the Colorado convention over the weekend, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump blasted Colorado's GOP leaders for running a "rigged, disgusting, dirty system." "We found out in Colorado this is not a democracy like we’re supposed to have," Trump said at Albany's Times Union Center in downtown Albany. "The system, folks, is rigged. It’s a rigged, disgusting, dirty system." Trump's main rival, Senator Ted Cruz swept all 34 delegates in Colorado over a complex process where delegates were picked on both congressional and statewide level that lasted for over several days. The Rocky Mountain state didn't have a presidential primary or caucus, which took Colorado completely off the primary map. In late August, party officials decided to cancel the traditional presidential voting to avoid binding its delegates to a candidate that may not survive until the Convention in July. The decision of selecting delegates through a caucus process sparked outrage where thousands of Republican voters were negated to weigh in on their choice of presidential contenders, leaving the state party members to be the kingmakers. …show more content…
It wasn't until last week when Cruz had won the first six of the 37 delegates that Trump hired Patrick Davis to oversee the organization of national delegate candidates. When it came time to choosing the final slate of convention delegates, Trump's campaign ballot list of preferred delegates was riddled with errors and misspellings, costing the GOP front-runner chances of winning any delegates. At the end, Trump managed to win only seven alternative