Trump Threatens Lawsuit Over Louisiana Delegate Allocation

Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump holds a plane-side rally in a hanger at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna, Ohio, Monday, March 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Following a report that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) may win more delegates in Louisiana’s primary than Donald Trump, even though Trump won the state, the Republican presidential frontrunner threatened to file a lawsuit on Sunday.

Trump complained about the “rotten political system” during a Sunday interview on ABC’s “This Week.”

“The Republican tabulation system is a broken system. It’s not fair,” he said.

“I won Louisiana and now I hear he’s trying to steal delegates,” Trump added, referring to Cruz. “What’s going on in the Republican Party is a disgrace. I have so many more votes and so many more delegates.”

According to the Wall Street Journal, Republican in Louisiana expect the five unbound delegates that had been awarded to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to back Cruz now that the Florida senator is out of the race. Cruz’s supporters have also secured key positions on convention committees, which could help the Texas senator at a contested convention, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Jason Doré, the executive director of the Louisiana Republican primary, told the Times-Picayune that the party is “really confident in the rules” and is prepared for a lawsuit from Trump.

Doré said that any disagreement over Rubio’s delegates is “is between Mr. Trump and those guys,” and added that the delegates have not yet made any final decision.

“There’s no commitments from any of these delegates — the Rubio delegates or others — that they’re going to go for Cruz or for Trump,” he told the Times-Picayune.

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  1. All P.T. Trump the sociopath does is sue.

  2. Correction: He threatens to sue. He often backs off when his attorneys explain to him that he’s going to lose. And Trump is not a loser!! Well, not yet, anyway.

  3. Avatar for docd docd says:

    i would love to see a spreadsheet of sorts that keeps track of many times Trump has threatened to sue someone, has called someone a loser, has characterized a newspaper, talk show, or news outlet as failing…it would be interesting to keep track of how many of these bullying choices he makes.

  4. So let him sue. Stop letting this psychopath scare you and challenge him to do his worst.

    Call his fucking bluff already, sheesh.

  5. The Donald constantly threatens lawsuits, but given his lousy rate of success, bad idea! Sad.

    Those are the rules, Donny boy, same as getting 30% when the runner-up gets 28% gives you all the delegates in some states.

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