Only during the 2016 election cycle would a 20-year-old delegate be classified as an old “party boss.”

I was elected by the real voters and normal Americans who make up my state’s Republican Party. I followed the rules and democratic procedures that my state party laid out to secure my seat at the convention and never imagined that I would be blamed for ‘rigging’ the presidential nomination process — all because I oppose the GOP front-runner.

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