CHEYENNE – It was Ted Cruz who stole the show in Wyoming on Saturday as he easily defeated Donald Trump in the race to be the Republican party nominee.
The Texas Senator won 66.3 percent of the ballots in the state. Cruz won nine of the 12 national delegates at stake Saturday. Marco Rubio finished second with 19.5 percent of the vote. Trump finished in third with 7.2 percent of the votes.
Cruz unanimously won Hot Springs, Goshen, Uinta and Campbell counties, as well as Sweetwater, Sheridan, Laramie, Converse and Fremont counties. Donald Trump won Teton County and Sen. Marco Rubio won Albany County.
Cook County did not commit to any of the candidates.
Cruz hasn’t won Wyoming yet, however. More than half of the state’s available GOP delegates remain unallocated.
Republicans will choose another 14 delegates at their state convention in Casper in mid-April. The other three are the state GOP chairman, national committeeman and national committeewoman.
Wyoming will send a total of 29 delegates to the national convention, more than any state of similar size because of its strong Republican leanings.
According to reports, Cruz is the only active GOP candidate to have campaigned in Wyoming. He pledged at a rally near Cheyenne last year to reverse federal regulations affecting the coal industry.
