{"id":13964,"date":"2016-05-10T19:40:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/cruz-wants-to-keep-delegates-won-in-alaska\/"},"modified":"2016-05-10T19:40:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:40:58","slug":"cruz-wants-to-keep-delegates-won-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/cruz-wants-to-keep-delegates-won-in-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz wants to keep delegates won in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 Ted Cruz has suspended his presidential campaign, but he wants to keep the delegates he won in the Alaska presidential preference poll.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the state GOP, dated Sunday, Cruz says he encourages delegates who supported him to participate in shaping the party platform at the national convention.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz won 12 delegates in the March preference poll. Donald Trump won 11 and Marco Rubio, five. The delegates for each were selected at last month\u2019s state GOP convention.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz suspended his campaign days later. Rubio previously suspended his campaign but also asked to keep his delegates.<\/p>\n<p>State GOP chairman Tuckerman Babcock says in a statement that the number of delegates pledged to each will remain unchanged barring any further requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 Ted Cruz has suspended his presidential campaign, but he wants to keep the delegates he won in the Alaska presidential preference poll. In a letter to the state GOP, dated Sunday, Cruz says he encourages delegates who supported him to participate in shaping the party platform at the national convention. Cruz won 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":13965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13964"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}