Trump Rages About Colorado Loss in WSJ Op-Ed

Donald Trump, smarting from his loss of Colorado’s delegates to Sen. Ted Cruz, penned an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal published Thursday night, taking aim at the “system” and “political insiders.”

Trump asserts that Cruz “has been mathematically eliminated by the voters,” and so has no recourse outside of turning arcane party rules to his advantage.

GOP leaders cancelled Colorado’s presidential straw vote in August, fearing that they would bind their delegates to candidates who would be out of the race before the convention. The Cruz team adjusted their strategy to the new conditions and ran the better ground game in Colorado, sweeping all 34 delegates.

Trump responded on Sunday: “Great anger – totally unfair!”

He writes in his op-ed:

My campaign strategy is to win with the voters. Ted Cruz’s campaign strategy is to win despite them.

What we are seeing now is not a proper use of the rules, but a flagrant abuse of the rules. Delegates are supposed to reflect the decisions of voters, but the system is being rigged by party operatives with “double-agent” delegates who reject the decision of voters.

“The political insiders have had their way for a long time,” he concludes. “Let 2016 be remembered as the year the American people finally got theirs.”

[h/t WSJ]

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