Presumptive Republican presidential nominee spoke to the Western Conservative Summit

Article subtitle: 
Donald Trump not ready to bury the hatchet with Colorado Republicans
Article publisher: 
Denver Post
Article date: 
2 July 2016
Article category: 
National News
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election
Republican
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...“Colorado is what taught me a lot about politics. I learned a lot,” Trump told more than 2,000 people at the convention center in downtown Denver on Friday. “Because polls came out that I was going to win Colorado … and I was looking forward to it. And then all of a sudden I didn’t get the delegates. And I said, ‘What happened to the vote?’ ”

The remarks at the start of his rambling 52-minute speech put the focus on the bad blood in Colorado’s Republican Party toward Trump’s candidacy just as the party wanted to move forward with a unified vision ahead of the convention at the end of the month.
 
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn’t help in her speech moments earlier, in which she eviscerated the “never Trump” crowd plotting to upset the billionaire businessman in Cleveland — an effort led by a handful of Colorado delegates pledged to rival Ted Cruz.
 
“I just call them Republicans against Trump, or RAT for short,” she said to big applause. “At such a time as this,” she continued, “you cannot be lukewarm. We are taking our country back and you are either with us or against us.”...
 
The summit — billed as the largest gathering of conservatives outside Washington — is the first look at Trump for the state’s Republican voters after he snubbed the state in the primary season...
 
More than 4,000 are expected at the three-day confab, which is organized by the Centennial Institute think tank housed at Colorado Christian University...
 
See the original article for a video of Donald Trump's full 51 minute speech.
 

 

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