“while the establishment gets their guy Rubio into pole position..”
You are exactly right. If Trump get knocked out of this Rubio will be the nominee. There is no way in Hades they will let Cruz have it.
Exactly. The establishment and suspect some on here are fanning the flames between the two camps to get their boy in, . Once one of them Cruz or Trump is out then they can direct all their attacks against one , thus letting Rubio in and hello open borders, time to learn Spanish.
Trump’s ego is too big to realize this. He should be going after Rubio, but instead he’ll go after Cruz because his ego can’t stand the idea that Cruz beat him.