Donald Trump has named an unlikely ally in his fight with the Republican Party over delegates: Bernie Sanders.
During a rally in Syracuse, N.Y., on Saturday, Trump mentioned his ongoing feud with the Republican Party over the process for delegate selection. He complained the process is rigged. He pointed to Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders, a Vermont senator who has won six of the past seven contests in the Democratic race but has yet to get any headway in the delegate fight with Hillary Clinton.
The media continues to say that Sanders does not have a chance, Trump added.
“The system is corrupt. The system is broken,” he said. “The Democrats have a different system, but our system is worse than theirs. The bosses are picking the delegates and it is a very bad thing.”
“Despite all of that, we are going to win,” Trump added.
Trump’s complaint comes after rival Ted Cruz won all 34 delegates in Colorado. The Texas senator’s campaign out-organized Trump in the state, which has a complicated caucus process for selecting delegates. Trump was left complaining about the state’s decision not to hold a preference vote.
“Responsible leaders should be shocked by the idea that party officials can simply cancel elections in America if they don’t like what the voters may decide,” Trump wrote in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal last week.
While Sanders has racked up multiple wins, he hasn’t been able to make a dent in Hillary Clinton’s pledged delegate lead. Part of the issue is the system Democrats use that rewards delegates proportionally.
Polls show that the Vermont senator trails Clinton ahead of the New York primary on Tuesday. RealClearPolitics shows Trump up an average of 31 percentage points above his nearest challenger, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, in polls of likely Republican primary voters in New York.
