apr 11, 2016 - Trump blasts Colorado delegate fight as ‘crooked deal'. 'What kind of a system is this?'

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Donald Trump vented Monday over the delegate fight on which his campaign has been repeatedly outfoxed, slamming the situation in Colorado as a "crooked deal."

“Well it really started with Colorado, and the people out there are going crazy — in the Denver area and Colorado itself — and they’re going absolutely crazy because they weren’t given a vote, this was given by politicians. It’s a crooked deal, and I see it," the Republican front-runner said in a telephone interview on "Fox & Friends," referring to his defeat over the weekend in the state where Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won all 34 delegates at play at the state's Republican convention.

Referring to a comment from co-host Pete Hegseth explaining that the rules are the rules, Trump remarked, "Well that shouldn’t be the way it is. This was changed in the summer to help a guy like Cruz, and it’s not right now."

Colorado Republicans voted last August to cancel their traditional presidential preference poll after the Republican National Committee changed its rules to require states' delegates to support whoever wins the caucus.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus denied in a radio interview with conservative host Mike Gallagher that Trump was being cheated, but also said the party must ensure that whoever loses does not fall "because of some rules committee change or something like that, that happens."

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/trump-delegate-fight-crooked-221789

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