Calls to dump caucus, go with presidential primary echo from both sides of the aisle

With GOP frontrunner Donald Trump now bashing Colorado’s caucus and convention system, there are indications that a change is in the works.

Lawmakers in Denver plan to soon introduce a bill that would scrap the caucus in favor of a presidential primary.

After a shutout here, Donald Trump is enraged.

Only the most active Colorado Republicans participated in the caucus and convention process leading some voters to cry foul.

“The process has really let us down this year,” active GOP voter Eli Bremer said. “It really should be the primary voters in each state that pick our eventual nominee.
What we’re having are back room deals and things that Republicans, Democrats and Independents are quite frustrated with.”

Only 6 percent of registered Republicans and Democrats voted in the Colorado Caucuses March 1.

In a presidential primary, many argue turnout would be much higher.

“Because we have a mail-in ballot system it would give people more opportunity to place their vote as opposed to place their votre as opposed to having to show up the one time the caucus was happening,” Tony Gioia said.

Deployed soldiers can participate in a primary, not a caucus,” El Paso County GOP Executive Director Daniel Cole said. “It’s really outrageous that we have a system where deployed soldiers overseas can’t participate.”

The push for a presidential primary is a goal shared across both sides of the aisle.

The Democratic caucuses in March between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders broke records in Colorado.

“Even though we had 9,000 Democrats caucus in El Paso County, that’s 10 percent, it’s still not a good representation,” Annie Schmitt with Pike Peak Dems said.

The hope on both sides, we have a primary in place by 2020.

Secretary of State Wayne Williams said a state-run primary would cost about $5 million.