Cruz picks up all of Colo. delegates; Sanders wins Wyo.

Associated Press

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.

Ted Cruz completed his sweep of Colorado’s 34 delegates on Saturday while rival Donald Trump angled for favor a half-continent away in New York’s all-important April 19 primary. On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders picked up another win in Wyoming – but it did nothing to help him gain ground in the delegate chase.

Cruz netted 13 more delegates at Colorado’s state GOP convention. The Texas Senator already had locked up the support of 21 Colorado delegates and visited the state to try to pad his numbers there.

Keeping up his tussle with Trump over values, Cruz told the Colorado crowd it’s easy to talk about making America great again – “you can even print that on a baseball cap” – but that the more-important question is which candidate understands “the principles and values that made America great in the first place.”

Trump left the Colorado convention to his organizers, and spent time Saturday touring the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan. His campaign issued a statement describing the site as “symbolic of the strength of our country, and in particular New Yorkers, who have done such an incredible job rebuilding that devastated section of our city.”

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton says she needs to “win big” in New York’s primary to become the Democratic presidential nominee and “go after Republicans full-time.”

Clinton has 1,287 delegates based on primaries and caucuses to Sanders’ 1,037. When including superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate, Clinton has 1,756, or 74 percent of the number needed to clinch the nomination. Sanders has 1,068.

Cruz tried Saturday to persuade a group of Republican donors and Jewish leaders in Las Vegas to support him. He detoured from next-to-vote New York to speak to the Republican Jewish Coalition. Trump and John Kasich declined the group’s invitations.