Cruz wins all 14 delegates at Wyoming GOP Convention

Hamilton Nwosa
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Ted Cruz on Saturday won all 14 delegates in the Wyoming GOP convention — a relatively small number but enough for the Texas senator to declare victory and keep GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump from securing the nomination.

“We are likely to have a battle in Cleveland to decide who is the nominee,” Cruz told party members before they picked the delegates. “If you don’t want to see Donald Trump as the nominee, … then I ask you to please vote for the men and women on this slate.”

According to Fox News,Wyoming process mirrored that of Colorado, which was engulfed by political controversy after hosting a similar convention last week.

Cruz’s campaign ran circles around the Trump operation there, prompting Trump to slam the multi-tiered caucus system as “rigged.”

Cruz was expected to do well in Wyoming because his campaign had been lining up support there for months, too.

“The ground game is starting early and starting at your most local, smallest enclave,” said Ed Buchanan, Cruz’s Wyoming chairman. Fox News reports

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