If one had to pick a theme for the 2016 election it would be the success of outsider insurgent candidates. In the Democratic primaries socialist Senator Bernie Sanders has momentum on his side after defeating the “inevitable” establishment candidate, Hillary Clinton in seven straight contests.
The Republican race has seen several outsider candidates enjoy their moments in the sun this election. Before poor performances in Iowa and New Hampshire forced Carly Fiorina to suspend her campaign, she showcased her sharp intellectual skills at every debate. With an impressive command of both domestic and foreign policy, Fiorina set the early bar for debate performances and remains near the top of all of the candidates short lists for VP.
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson is another outsider who enjoyed success in the GOP primary this election. After briefly catapulting to the top of the polls late last year, Carson fell back down to Earth after many voters (and campaign staffers) became concerned that he did not have a firm grasp on policy. Carson’s plea for a more civil tone in the election has largely been disregarded, but he remains a highly favorable figure to most conservatives.
By far, the most successful insurgent candidate this year, though, remains real estate mogul, Donald Trump. However, Trump’s bombastic persona and often controversial rhetoric has led the GOP establishment to try to take him down, even rallying behind Ted Cruz — who on just about any other election year would be considered the outsider candidate.
Now we have (yet another) report of election fraud in an attempt to stop Trump. A now-former delegate in Colorado claims he was stripped of his title for voting for Trump, giving Cruz all of the Colorado delegates. To continue reading and watch videos from the delegate himself, continue on the next page:
We must not tolerate injustice or we are to be blamed for! We must not let these traitors get away with who are disloyal to our democracy!
You need to challenge the authority of who thought they had the right to replace you? This is a democracy. If we have to will fight for it.
Is Cruz a Christian or a Freemason? I thought he might make a great Constitutional Conservative President until it started looking more like he was a part of the Establishment that will stop at nothing to make this NWO happen.
On cnn or fox they only show him burning his paper like a disgruntled Trump supporter. They do not carry the whole story.
America? Who’s regime?
It’s time to load up and fight the liberals are terrified cause of what they do because if Trump doesn’t win there be civil war
Lying Ted Cruz strikes again. He makes me repulsed to be a Republican. Well, no more, not after this election. Organized crime is more honest.
WRONG..!!!..America Is NOT A ‘Democracy’.
America Is A ‘Constitutional Republic’..Educate Yourself.
b******t, all lies,
it’s kind of a hybrid, and in Colorado it has four steps.
The first happens this year on March 1, Super Tuesday, when nearly a dozen other states hold early nominating contests. Colorado has a round of precinct-level caucuses in neighborhoods around the state. This is the first chance for a candidate to get knocked out of the running. Presidential contenders need to meet a minimum of 15 percent to send enough delegates to represent him or her at the next level. And it could happen right in the living room of one of your neighbors.
The second step is for the locally designated delegates who you’ll help select at your caucus meeting to travel to conventions in all 64 counties where another poll for president takes place.
Then at seven congressional district conventions, parties will take a poll to send delegates for each presidential candidate on to the state and national convention. Then, finally, at the state convention on April 16th in Loveland, the same thing happens: more polling.
Bottom line: March 1 is your chance to get in early and will be the first place to make your voice heard. Good news: you won’t have to travel far. Unless you yourself are selected to attend the next steps, your delegates will carry the banner for your candidate from here, all the way to the national convention, which takes place in Philadelphia.
Pathetic anc corrupt RNC!