Donald Trump won about 3 percent more votes than Ted Cruz in the Louisiana Republican primary, but Cruz stands to walk away with as many as 10 more delegates from the state supporting him at the Republican National Convention thanks to arcane delegate allocation rules (which vary widely by state).
Needless to say, Trump is not happy. He took to Twitter Sunday afternoon to threaten a lawsuit against the GOP:
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