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Donald Trump Furious With Colorado GOP Leaders

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has condemned Colorado’s process for selecting GOP delegates after Ted Cruz received all 34 without a popular vote. Some Republican voters have resorted to toasting their registration papers in protest. Russia Today reports: Instead of a statewide primary, Colorado Republicans elected their delegates at a state convention on Saturday, following the precinct caucuses on March 1. The change, adopted last August by the state’s party leadership, put the selection process in the hands of “party insiders and activists” while leaving some 90 percent of Colorado’s million-plus Republicans on the sidelines, the Denver Post noted. “What kind of a system is this?” Trump told Fox News on Monday. “Now, I’m an outsider, and I came into the system and I’m winning the votes by millions of votes. But the system is rigged. It’s crooked.” Trump accused “phony politicians” of stealing the vote from the people of Colorado and called the process “totally unfair.” Larry Lindsey, one Trump supporter who was turned back from the state convention, got so angry he posted a video on YouTube in which he set his Republican registration on fire. “You’ve had it. You’re done. You’re toast. Because I quit the party,” [...]