The more relevant question is....
Which states do you thing Trump will lose that Romney won?
The reality is Trump put much more of the map into play than Cruz or Kasich or them both combined ever will.
Yes, Cruz might win a southern state in a general election by a wider margin that Trump might, but Trump isn’t going to lose any of those states... but he will put into play states Cruz or Kasich have no shot at, and will win a few of them as well. Cruz will lose a lot of states that Trump will put into play.
The GOP has the first candidate in nearly 3 decades that demonstrable evidence shows is expanding the party, and they are determined to destroy him.. makes absolutely no sense.
Yup...makes no sense.
Trump is winning states that haven’t been won by a Republican for decades and the party establishment is holding up its nose.
Usually they’d be thrilled with wins like New York but you can’t fix stupid.
Except for the over zealous nut jobs of the Never Trump movement, there isn't a person who voted for Mormon Bishop Romney that wouldn't happily vote for Presbyterian Moderate Republican Trump. The majority of the Never Trump nonsense is the DC insider brigade who will have their apple carts of easy political analyst, and Campaign managers & paid workers who infest the DC swamp.
Trump motivates more white working class to show up and vote and switch from Democrat to Trump Republican.
Hillary is an incredibly bad candidate. She turns off as many woman as she excites, she also turns off a large percentage of male votes, working class male votes. Those voters are up for Trump to grab.
If Romney had won only 3.% more of the white vote or motivated just 5% more white voters to vote, he would have won the presidency. If just 7% more white people voted in 2012, or just 4% of the white vote switched from Obama to Romney he would have won a landslide in the electoral college.
Trump is already motivating white working class voters to switch party allegiance and vote for the first time in a generation. If Trump has a quality VP candidate, he could run away with a General Election. Particularly if Hillary has more legal troubles.