Scaring you? Let me paint a picture.
Here’s what is likely to happen. Cruz simply is not going to have enough to get to the magic number. By my calculations, give or take California, Trump will either get it or get close.
If it is a contested convention, and Trump loses, then I see Trump running as an independent.
Since Hillary was winning the south and Bernie most of everything else, the remaining areas are mostly white and northern, which favors Bernie.
It is quite possible in November we will see: Ryan or Cruz (R), Sanders (D) and Trump (I). Then Sanders wins because of a lot of disgruntled Republicans voting for Trump and we get UBER-liberal Supreme Court justices.
Consider Scalia died and was born 1936. We have conservatives Kennedy (1936), Thomas (1948), liberals Ginsburg (1933), Breyer (1938). Picture the old liberals replaced by more extreme liberals. Then picture Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas replaced by extreme liberals.
Then you end up with a Supreme Court of perhaps 5 people appointed by Sanders, 2 liberals appointed by Obama (Sotomayor and Kagan), leaving moderate Roberts and one conservative (Alito).
Picture an entire generation of 7-2 and 8-1 liberal votes, during a period of time in which illegal immigrants overrun the US, the 19 trillion debt grows to WHO-KNOWS-WHAT, Muslims overrun Europe, and Iran (and probably Saudi Arabia and Egypt) get nuclear weapons. China overtakes us economically. Etc. Etc.
Grab your ankles and bite down on a stick.
Trump is plenty strong enough to win states in the Electoral College. That likely puts the presidential decision in the House of Representatives, where the Republican candidate would almost certainly be an easy winner.
If Trump runs as an Independent then he’ll also lose...in fact lose all the more than if he stayed as he is....It would also indicate clearly that he IS a loser if he resorts to that course.
What we’re going to see is Cruz or Trump winning before convention or it goes there and either or win via convention delegates....simple.
Ahem. Are you a Trump guy?
If so, maybe you’d better pull your boy aside.
The villain in the scenario you paint is Donald Trump.
Donald Trump will lose in a contested convention and Cruz will win.
In that case, we will have the candidate we should have had all along, a proven conservative and constitution lover.
We will then have the candidate who can win.
So, if Trump runs as an independent, he will not only be horribly humiliated but he will be a traitor as he will hand the country to the dems.
Only a person of Trump’s vanity would even consider doing that.
I think you should re-think that whole scenario... it does not hold water.