Conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh pushed back Monday on the critics and conservative voters who said Colorado disenfranchised voters by choosing a presidential nominee through a state convention, and not by a vote.
“Now, what happened in Colorado is, I’m sorry to say, it’s not a trick,” said Limbaugh, according to transcript. “What happened in Colorado is right out in the open. Everybody’s known how Colorado runs its affairs. Everybody has known. Nobody just chose to look at it. It’s no secret that Colorado was going to have a convention and they’re gonna choose their delegates before the primary. It’s not a secret. It’s just nobody leaked it. Nobody talked about it. Nobody bragged about it. So it was left to be discovered by people who didn’t know.”
At issue are the Colorado GOP rules for how the state’s delegates are proportioned and who those delegates get to support. The process is not done as a state-wide primary vote, as is the case in other states, but through a party convention.
Cruz took all 34 of the state’s delegates this weekend, leading Donald Trump, who is still leading with the most delegates overall, to cry foul.
“Now, I’m an outsider, and I came into the system and I’m winning the votes by millions of votes,” the billionaire businessman said Monday on Fox News. “But the system is rigged. It’s crooked.”
“None of this is a mystery,” said Limbaugh, questioning whether Trump’s campaign is simply unaware of all the rules governing the election. “This is the definition of insider versus outsider. This is a classic illustration of how an outsider has to learn the insider game to play it.”
