Ted Cruz wins Wyoming Republican presidential nominating contest

Ted Cruz wins Wyoming Republican presidential nominating contest

Cruz is aggravating to anticipate Trump from accepting the 1,237 assembly bare to defended the Republican choice at the July assemblage in Cleveland. By continuing to arbor up baby wins, Cruz is accepting arena on the New York absolute acreage mogul, who has appropriately far bootless to about-face his focus on the local-level advancement all-important to win delegates.

Republican U.S. presidential hopeful Ted Cruz won all 14 assembly at pale on Saturday in Wyoming, besting battling Donald Trump, who fabricated little accomplishment to win the rural state, and added absorption the gap in the chase for the party's nomination.

Trump has been analytical of the process, afresh on Saturday calling it "rigged" while speaking at a assemblage in Syracuse, New York. He has again complained about Colorado, which awarded all 34 of its assembly to Cruz admitting not captivation a accepted vote.

Trump said his supporters are acceptable more affronted with states such as Wyoming and Colorado.

"They're traveling basics out there; they're angry," Trump said in Syracuse. "The administration took abroad their vote, and I wasn't traveling to forward big teams of humans three, four months ago, accept them out there."

While Trump has won 21 accompaniment nominating contests to Cruz's 10, the billionaire leads the Texas agent by alone 196 assembly (755-559). That agency he have to win about 60 percent of those actual afore the party's political assemblage in July.

Wyoming does not authority a primary vote. Instead, 475 affair activists convened in Casper on Saturday to authority a accompaniment assemblage and accolade 14 delegates.

Previously, 12 added assembly had been appointed at county-level conventions. Cruz won 10 of those, with one traveling to Trump and addition getting adopted as "unbound."

Cruz batten at the convention, capping off a months-long accomplishment to adapt abutment in the state. Trump had originally planned to forward above Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who charcoal accepted a part of conservatives, as a surrogate, but she canceled at the endure minute.

Cruz batten about bounded issues in Wyoming, the better coal-producing state. He discussed the Democratic "attack" on the deposit fuel, adage President Barack Obama has approved to put the atramentous industry out of business through government regulations targeting air pollution.

"America is the Saudi Arabia of coal, and we are traveling to advance our industry," Cruz said.

At the aforementioned time, Trump was speaking at a assemblage in Syracuse, New York, advanced of the state's Republican primary on Tuesday.

(Reporting by Ginger Gibson and Alana Wise; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Grant McCool)

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