Using your scenario, Cruz will owe the GOPe BIG TIME!!!!
The ones “left in the dust” will the everyday, common American.....
Will have to just agree to disagree. Cruz has been rock steady all along on principal, and, IMHO, grateful for help wherever it comes from - yes, even GOPe - but he's got a great deal of help from GOPtp. I believe that is where his heart is - and that is why he has my support.
Where you see backstabbing, I see "making a deal" that benefits the campaign to get the desired GOPtp outcome.