Larry Lindsey of Colorado, who represents the Douglas County Republican party, was informed at the convention in Colorado Springs this past weekend that he had been replaced. Lindsey alleges that it is because he was a Trump supporter and that his precinct captain finally “made good on her threats.”
Cruz won all of Colorado’s 34 delegates for the GOP nomination without a single vote being cast by citizens.
Trump was irate at the news, claiming that the method of election is rigged. He told Fox News in a live broadcast:
I’ve gotten millions… of more votes than 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. They offer them trips—they offer them all sorts of things, and you’re allowed to do that. 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.
In summer 2015, the Denver Post reported that Colorado Republicans voted to cancel the presidential vote at the 2016 caucus and leave the nomination solely to the delegates. The Denver Post further wrote in a follow-up article that, “Colorado Republicans who want to have a say in the future of their party have mostly been stripped of a role in the most interesting and surprising nominating struggle in decades.”
Watch Larry Lindsey’s side of the story above.