Donald Trump Backers Plan Protest Of Colorado Vote
DENVER (AP) - Supporters of Donald Trump will be demonstrating against the Colorado Republican party's presidential nominating process Friday.
Backers have planned a rally at the state capitol at 3 pm. They are protesting the convoluted procedure that led Ted Cruz to sweep all the state's 34 delegates last weekend. Trump has criticized the Colorado process as "rigged" and promoted the protest on Twitter.
Colorado's presidential elections began March 1 with statewide caucuses. But the Republican party canceled a poll that would have shown which candidate won. Instead, the caucuses sent people to county and state conventions sometimes not knowing how they'd vote.
Cruz swept the state convention. He hopes to deny Trump the 1237 delegates needed to clinch the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention this July.
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