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Page 8A NATION/WORLD East Oregonian Wednesday, April 13, 2016 Trump amassing delegates who might not be loyal Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Already behind the curve in organizing for the Republican convention, Donald Trump has missed crucial deadlines in a number of states to lock up delegates who would stay loyal EH\RQGWKH¿UVWEDOORW Trump’s shortcomings in this behind-the-scenes campaign, which hasn’t played much of a role in selecting the GOP nominee in decades, could doom his presiden- tial candidacy if he is unable to win the nomination in the initial voting at this summer’s national conven- WLRQLQ&OHYHODQG $IWHU WKDW ¿UVW EDOORW PRVW delegates are no longer bound to support the winner of their state’s party primary or caucuses — they’re free agents who can support WKHFDQGLGDWHRIWKHLUFKRRVLQJ Most of the actual delegates are elected at state and congressional district conventions run by party insiders, members of the Repub- lican establishment that Trump has run against from the outset of his FDPSDLJQ And while Trump’s team has had little contact with these loyal party activists, his chief rival for the Republican nomination, Texas 6HQ 7HG &UX] KDV EHHQ DFWLYHO\ FRXUWLQJWKHPIRUPRQWKV Trump has spent the past three days hammering at his party’s dele- JDWHVHOHFWLRQSURFHVVDVµ¶XQIDLU´ At a rally in Rome, New York, Tuesday evening, Trump angrily GHQRXQFHG 6DWXUGD\¶V ¿QDO DOORFD- tion of all of Colorado’s delegates to Cruz, blasting the party’s system DV³ULJJHG´DQG³FRUUXSW´ Trump’s team is only now starting to engage in the delegate selection process, the choosing of the actual people who will DWWHQG DQG YRWH DW WKH FRQYHQWLRQ Republicans have already selected GHOHJDWHV LQ DW OHDVW QLQH VWDWHV And in others, such as Virginia and Arizona, the deadline to apply to be DGHOHJDWHKDVSDVVHG Indiana’s primary, for example, ZRQ¶WWDNHSODFHXQWLOQH[WPRQWK lenge of then-President Gerald Ford at the 1976 Republican convention LQ.DQVDV&LW\ Manafort has accused Cruz’s campaign of strong-arming would-be delegates and said in an interview with Fox News Chan- nel’s Sean Hannity airing Tuesday night that he shared concerns with KLVERVV “The point that Donald Trump was making is that the process in Colorado was being abused and it’s not that the rules themselves were unknown, it’s the way the UXOHVZHUHDSSOLHG´0DQDIRUWVDLG according to a transcript provided E\ WKH QHWZRUN ³:H¶UH VHHLQJ the same mistakes in Colorado, 0LVVRXULDQG/RXLVLDQD$QGVRWKH mistakes are not really mistakes — LW¶VDSDWWHUQ´ However, he said Trump was successful in selecting delegates in Michigan, and predicted the same LQ1HYDGD ³,Q IDFW ZH ZLSHG KLP RXW´ Manafort said in an NBC interview 6XQGD\ ³$QG ZH¶UH JRLQJ WR VHH 7HG&UX]JHWVNXQNHGLQ1HYDGD´ Former South Carolina Repub- lican Chairman Katon Dawson, who has been publicly neutral in the race, said he’s seen no difference in Trump’s delegate strategy since 0DQDIRUW¶VKLUH Said Dawson, a veteran national GOP strategist, “He’s not a house- hold name or miracle worker by DQ\VWUHWFK´ Trump won all 50 of South Caro- OLQD¶VGHOHJDWHV%XWLQRUGHUWREHD delegate at the national convention, you had to be a delegate at last \HDU¶VVWDWHFRQYHQWLRQ ³7KHSHRSOHWKDWDUHJRLQJWR¿OO those slots were already selected DQ\ZD\´VDLG5HSXEOLFDQSROLWLFDO consultant Tony Denny, who has been a delegate to three previous *23QDWLRQDOFRQYHQWLRQV Cruz has already done a lot of groundwork to get supporters selected as delegates in South &DUROLQD “The delegate selection process LV LQ WKHLU '1$´ 'HQQ\ VDLG RI &UX]¶VJURXQGRSHUDWLRQ AP Photo/Mike Groll Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a rally at Griffiss International Airport in Rome, N.Y., on Tuesday But the deadline to become a national convention delegate was in PLG0DUFK “Are we concerned? 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