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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the closest rival to Republican front-runner Donald Trump, turned three caucuses and one primary into an eleven-state winning streak. During an interview on the Ken Show in Southern California, Sen. Cruz spun the contests in Utah, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Colorado as “eleven elections” and said Trump “doesn’t handle losing very well.”
“Here’s the simple fact, in the last three weeks there have been a total of eleven elections all across the country,” Sen. Cruz said. “We’ve beaten Donald Trump in all eleven elections.”
The Texas senator indeed won the contests in the aforementioned states. But of the last 11 “elections,” Trump won six, Ohio Gov. John Kasich won one (his home state), and Sen. Cruz won just 3. The party-picked delegates at the Colorado caucuses were selected during a process that began on March 1.
The Rocky Mountain State is a special case and those who select the delegates don’t at all represent the electorate voting in November, let alone in a typical primary. The state party, which tweeted out “We did it! #NeverTrump” on Saturday, changed their rules to protect the Establishment candidate after former Sen. Rick Santorum defeated Mitt Romney in 2012.
Three of four states mentioned by Sen. Cruz were caucus states, with Wisconsin being the only primary state.
In fact, this isn’t the first time Sen. Cruz has put forward fuzzy math. He routinely claims to have won more contests than he has on the campaign trail, or at least spin the victories into something they are not.
Though the host didn’t push back on the false claim, he did tactically question Sen. Cruz about the “delegate convention” process, which was a subtle way of telling his listeners that he isn’t winning the bulk of these states in a typical primary electorate. Sen. Cruz has won just three primaries, to include his home state of Texas where he failed to get a majority.
