No, no. You forget.
The Establishment props Cruz up and these state officials are doing the delegate picking. These state delegates are by large measure not Cruz supporters, but rather ANTI-TRump supporters who also happen to be Establishment delegates picking more ANTI-TRump establishment delegates.
They go in appearing as Cruz supporters, goofy, but at Convention they will go THIRD BALLOT straight up for the Establishment insider, like Bush, or Ryan, etc., and it will be a voice vote, like in ‘12 against the Ron Paul forces.
The “Ayes” will be deemed to have it, the gavel will fall and the party is over. Cruz will be in the dust bin, having been kicked to the curb, scratching around looking under rocks for all those so called, “Cruz delegates” of his. They went that-a-way.
Cruzaders will not be seen nor heard of for days, curled up in the fetal position with their thumb in their mouth, wondering why after TRUMP was nicely robbed that their globalist guy with the cutesy globalist wife isn’t the nominee.
Give us a ring when you sober up. This about Third Ballot Delegates they are giving to Cruz. He thinks they are *for* him. Squat and watch the outcome.
I plan on it.
Cruz will either secure the nomination before the convention, or soundly defeat Trump on the second ballot of the contested convention.
I planning on watching and enjoying.
“The Establishment props Cruz up and these state officials are doing the delegate picking”
Are you in any of “those” states and do you have any idea what is really going on that is anything other than paranoid conjecture? Do you know any of the folks who are being picked?
I am and I do and you have no idea what you are talking about, at least when it comes to my neck of the woods.