RNC: Burden is on candidates to learn delegate process

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Washington Examiner:

The Republican National Committee on Friday defended the various systems that states and territories are using to award delegates, and said it's up to candidates to know how the system works in each state.

 

The Friday morning memo was released after a week in which Donald Trump complained that Ted Cruz was able to sweep all of Colorado's 34 delegates. Colorado decided not to have people vote in a preference poll, and all the delegates went to Cruz.

 

Trump blamed the Republican establishment for a "crooked" system, but the RNC memo said the plans of Colorado and other states were known well in advance, and that it's the candidates' job to learn those rules.

 

"The rules surrounding the delegate selection have been clearly laid out in every state and territory and while each state is different, each process is easy to understand for those willing to learn it," RNC Chief Strategist and Communications Director Sean Spicer wrote in the memo.

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GOP insiders to Trump: Quit whining

 

Republican insiders have a message for Donald Trump in the wake of the GOP front-runner’s complaints that the party’s presidential nominating system is “rigged” against his candidacy: Stop whining about the rules.

 

That’s according to The POLITICO Caucus – a panel of operatives, strategists and activists in 10 key general-election battleground states. Ninety-two percent of Republican insiders said the system is fair and dismissed Trump’s claims, which came after a delegate shutout in Colorado’s district and state conventions last week.

 

“Mr. Trump apparently has zero understanding of how our caucus system works in Colorado, and he got exactly what he deserved — zero delegates for zero amount of time spent here,” said a Colorado Republican — who, like all respondents, completed the survey anonymously.

Ted Cruz, with whom all the Colorado delegates selected are aligned, “had people on the ground for 8 months,” added another GOP insider there. “Trump hired his first ground operative here last Wednesday. He was out-worked.”

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/donald-trump-gop-insiders-whining-221967