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    Ted Cruz Wins Majority of Delegates in Colorado

    Ted Cruz Wins Majority of Delegates in Colorado

    By JEREMY W. PETERS
    APRIL 8, 2016



    Senator Ted Cruz at an event in Scotia, New York, on Thursday. The candidate hopes to build momentum leading up to the state’s primary on April 19, after gaining ground in Colorado’s caucuses.CreditNathaniel Brooks for The New York Times

    COLORADO SPRINGS — Senator Ted Cruz captured a majority of Colorado’s delegates to the Republican National Convention on Friday, outmaneuvering Donald J. Trump, whose lack of an organized national campaign once again allowed Mr. Cruz to gain at his expense.

    As the fight for the Republican campaign moves into a game of inches where a handful of delegates could decide the nomination, Mr. Trump’s losses here were a troubling sign.


    Colorado awards its delegates differently from the way most states do. Instead of holding a statewide primary — the kind of contest Mr. Trump is used to commanding through his dominating and ubiquitous media presence — it is using a series of caucuses.


    Before this week, registered voters selected local-level delegates, who tend to be more conservative party loyalists, ones Mr. Trump has had trouble winning over. Those delegates, in turn, have been voting this week on delegates to the national convention, most of whom are pledging their support to one candidate or another.


    By Friday night, Mr. Cruz had taken 21 of the state’s 37 national delegates.


    Mr. Trump and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio had none. Thirteen others will be decided on Saturday at the state convention.

    Mr. Cruz, who has built a statewide network of supporters that includes conservative members of Congress, state legislators and grassroots activists, is expected to do well there, too. The remaining three delegates are party leaders who are automatically appointed.


    He is the only candidate scheduled to speak to the group. Mr. Trump was invited but is not planning to attend. Mr. Kasich will send a surrogate, John Sununu, the former New Hampshire governor.


    Last week Mr. Trump struggled to pick up support at the North Dakota Republican convention, which was similar to Colorado’s process. Mr. Cruz appeared to have at least several backers among the 28 delegates elected.

    But because they are not yet officially committed to any candidate, none could claim a lock on the state’s delegation.


    At one of the district caucuses on Friday afternoon, the strength of Mr. Cruz’s organization was on full display. The campaign flew in Representative Jim Bridenstine, Republican of Oklahoma, to give the crowd a pep talk.


    “Senator Ted Cruz has been in the trenches over and over and over again fighting for the conservative constitutional principles that we hold dear,” he said. Delegate candidates strolled up and down the aisles holding Cruz campaign signs with their names and ballot position written in marker.


    A small group of Trump volunteers wearing blue “Make America Great Again” hats aided in his efforts, passing out their preferred delegate slates and cheering from the back of the ballroom.


    Alan Cobb, an adviser to the Trump campaign who was in Colorado Springs on Friday to manage the delegate efforts, set expectations low.

    A pickup of one delegate would be worthwhile, he said, given how little effort the campaign had put into the state.


    “We made the conscious decision back in October that Colorado, because of the structure, just didn’t make sense for us to invest a lot of time and resources in,” he said. “It doesn’t lend itself to the kind of campaign we have and the folks who support us.”


    After Colorado, the Trump campaign plans to focus on Wyoming, which will name a slate of delegates next weekend.


    The campaign will then turn to larger prizes like Pennsylvania, which has a trove of uncommitted delegates who are likely to be a decisive factor in determining the party’s nominee.

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    Colorado caucus

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    REPUBLICAN
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    Mar 1
    66 delegates


    99% reporting Delegates Votes
    Sanders (won) 38 59.0%
    72,115
    Clinton 28 40.3%
    49,314


    Source: AP




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    By Friday night, Mr. Cruz had taken 21 of the state’s 37 national delegates.

    Mr. Trump and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio had none. Thirteen others will be decided on Saturday at the state convention.
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    Ted Cruz looking to scoop up more Colorado delegates

    NICHOLAS RICCARDI
    April 9, 2016

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has locked up the support of 21 Colorado delegates and may scoop up even more Saturday.

    Slates loyal to Cruz won every assembly in the state's seven congressional districts, which began April 2 and culminated Friday with 12 delegates selected.


    The Texas senator is well-positioned to pad his total Saturday, when 13 more delegates were to be chosen at the party's state convention.


    According to an Associated Press count, Trump has 743 delegates, Cruz has 532 and Ohio Gov. John Kasich has 143. It takes 1,237 to clinch the nomination, though there's a real chance no candidate will reach that mark by the national convention in Cleveland in July.


    Of Cruz's Colorado delegates so far, only 17 were formally pledged to him, and in theory the other four could change their vote in Cleveland. But they were all included on the senator's slates and are largely state party officials who said they were barred from signing a formal pledge for Cruz but have promised to back him in balloting at the convention.


    The result shows how Cruz's superior organization has helped him as he tries to catch up with front-runner Donald Trump.


    While Cruz's campaign spent months recruiting slates of delegates and securing pledges, Trump only this past week hired a Colorado state director.


    The Trump campaign said it wasn't worried and had always expected to fare poorly in Colorado because its assembly process is dominated by party insiders. "If we had a primary, yes, we would have done very well here," said Trump senior adviser Alan Cobb.


    Cruz also appeals to activists who dominate party functions — a deeply conservative, religious crowd with a libertarian streak.


    "Coloradans, naturally having that pioneer spirit, gravitate toward someone like Cruz," said state Rep. Justin Everett, one of Cruz's pledged delegates.

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