Ted Cruz Wins All 14 Wyoming GOP Delegates

"We are simply following the rules that are in place..."

At the Wyoming state party convention on Saturday, presidential candidate Ted Cruz secured all 14 of the GOP delegates up for grabs.

"We are likely to have a battle in Cleveland to decide who is the nominee,” Cruz told party members before the delegate selection. “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.”

Cruz had been setting up operations in Wyoming for months. “The ground game is starting early and starting at your most local, smallest enclave,” said Ed Buchanan, Cruz’s Wyoming chairman.

Opponent Donald Trump did not actively campaign in the state, instead focusing on the delegate-rich state of New York, holding its primary on Tuesday.

“You are going to hear this from me more and more: We have to bring our country together. We are a divided nation,” Trump said at a rally in upstate New York.

Senior Trump adviser Alan Cobb said about Colorado and Wyoming: "Candidates that have allies that are party insiders have advantages in states that have a pyramid process of selecting their delegates. These folks have worked this process for years."

The Wyoming GOP was ready for accusations from the Trump team.

“Every presidential candidate for the last 40 years has managed this process and has worked through this process and has followed the process that we have in Wyoming,” state GOP Chairman Matt Micheli said. “We are simply following the rules that are in place and that have been in place for a long time.”

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