You call securing loyal down-ballot delegates “backstabbing”. I call it running for president.
I feel like I’m talking to a child. Supporting Cruz regresses a person, at least ethically.
Prior to the convention (mentioned above), a high-school wide vote was conducted. Delegates were selected proportionally, depending on what percentage of the vote each candidate won. I don’t recall the figures, but let’s stipulate that the frontrunner won forty percent of the vote.
The delegation our high school sent to the convention would have included a forty-percent contingent committed to the frontrunner. Delegates for this contingent were selected from the pool of students who actually voted for this candidate. They were supposed to be his supporters, who at least initially preferred him to all other candidates.
No suppose I was a lying, cheating, dishonest, backstabbing jerk. I could have *pretended* to support the frontrunner just so I would be selected as one of his delegates. But my plan from the outset was betrayal; once I’d been forced to vote for him on the first ballot, then NEVER again! Thereafter I’d have staunchly supported my REAL choice...the one I backstabbed the frontrunner in order to support.
Of course none of this will make sense to you. As I said, ethics is the first loss when you go all in for an Adult Child of Alcoholics.