Only if they cheat.
I don’t think so. Many,many in DC not just the GOPe despise Cruz, as they consider him an opportunist. Frankly, there are quite a few incidents that my gut tells me the same thing. Personally, I do not trust politicians (Brother Love Santorum was one) who play to the evangelical vote. Cruz is doing just that, right now, and if it is turning a far right conservative like myself off, just imagine what it is doing to the moderate conservative. Religion and politics are like oil and water and only the desperate try to mix them. Incidentally, I love Jesus Christ, HE is my savior in everything, but I would never foul that relationship with something as cheap as politics.