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| Trump lashes out at ‘rigged, disgusting, dirty’ primary system |
Trump lashes out at ‘rigged, disgusting, dirty’ primary system
Donald Trump on Monday railed adjoin the GOP primary process, claiming Sen. Ted Cruz is burglary the acclamation from him through a "rigged, disgusting, bedraggled system."Speaking in upstate New York at a assemblage that was disconnected assorted times by protesters, Trump fumed over the weekend's after-effects from the Colorado accompaniment assemblage that saw a agent ambit by Cruz.
Trump acicular to the media abode at the Times Union Center in Albany and abhorrent the columnist for abnegation to point out what he declared as an abuse in the Republican primary contest.
"The media itself is so dishonest," Trump said. "Honestly, I do wonder. I'm millions of votes ahead, which they don't even mention, they don't even allocution about. They allocution about delegates. And I'm hundreds of assembly advanced but the arrangement is rigged, folks. It's a rigged, abominable bedraggled system. It's a bedraggled arrangement and alone a nonpolitician would say it."
Trump has won added states than Cruz and has congenital up a advantageous advance in assembly who will be apprenticed to him on the aboriginal acclamation at the GOP assemblage in Cleveland in July.
But the Cruz attack has a far stronger organization, and has been accepting assembly adopted to the assemblage that could abutment the Texas agent if Trump fails to ability the 1,237 assembly bare to win the choice outright.
Cruz's authoritative advantage showed on Saturday in Colorado, area the accompaniment affair forewent a primary or conclave and instead autonomous to authority a assemblage area grass-roots activists accept the assembly directly.
The Trump attack didn't even attempt there, and Cruz concluded up demography all 34 assembly up for grabs.
The aftereffect has been decried by Trump supporters, who accept accused Cruz of burglary the acclamation from Colorado Republicans they say accept been beggared of their vote.
The altercation escalated afterwards the accompaniment affair beatific out a cheep with the hashtag #NeverTrump. The accompaniment affair says the cheep was not accustomed and that it's investigating the situation.
"It's a fix because we anticipation we were accepting an acclamation and a amount of months ago they absitively to do you apperceive what - they said we'll do it by delegate," Trump said.
"Oh isn't that nice. And the assembly were all there all cat-and-mouse and the arch guy tweeted out something by aberration and again they withdrew it, something to the aftereffect of 'Never Trump' - because if I go to the voters of Colorado, we win Colorado. So it's a crooked, agee system."
Trump has 743 assembly to Cruz's 545. But if Trump fails to ability 1,237, abounding accept Cruz's authoritative advantage could duke him the choice afterwards the aboriginal vote at the convention.
For instance, Trump won the Louisiana primary, but Cruz ability yield home added assembly by advantage of picking-off associates of Marco Rubio's haul, as able-bodied as the 5 from the accompaniment that will go to the assemblage unbound.
Trump has threatened to sue there.
"I end up acceptable Louisiana and again if aggregate is done I acquisition out I get beneath assembly than this guy that got his ass kicked," Trump said in advertence to Cruz. "Give me a break. It's disgusting. It's a ailing system. Maybe in accession to acceptable we'll apple-pie up the arrangement so that in approaching years we can accept a fair contest. We ability be able to apple-pie up this bedraggled rotten abominable system."
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