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Cruz Positioned To Sweep Wyoming Delegates

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Kerry Picket Political Reporter
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Wyoming’s Republican convention Saturday looks bleak for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. Alan Cobb, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, told the Associated Press Friday Trump will not commit resources to the Cowboy State.

Trump only garnered one delegate from Wyoming’s county conventions while Cruz was awarded 9 delegates last month and there are 14 more delegates to be won at the state convention.

Cobb told the AP he expects Cruz to sweep the remainder of the 29 GOP delegates in Wyoming.

“This process is favorable toward party insider folks,” Cobb said. “When you don’t have a vote of the people, it just favors [Cruz].”

The Cruz camp has had campaign operatives on the ground for months. The Wyoming delegate election process is similar to that of Colorado’s, where Republicans caucus at a local level to elect delegates to go to the RNC Convention and other delegates are later elected at the state convention to go to the national convention as well.

Ed Buchanan, a former Wyoming House speaker, is state campaign chairman for the Cruz campaign. He argues Cruz will win Wyoming as a result of being organized and the work the campaign put into the state.

“Of course, we’ve been working at this since last fall, and really attempted to identify folks at the precinct level, and the caucus level and then at the county conventions, and that’s why we had some success on March 12,” Buchanan told the AP Friday. “And so we’ve just continued that effort.”

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