The GOPe establishment has a helluva lot more experience than Cruz in working delegates AND manipulating the rules that are designed to ensure an ESTABLISHMENT win.
If this thing gets decided by the convention there is no way Cruz will be the nominee.
If there was only a small difference between Trump and Cruz, I could see the argument for Cruz uniting behind Trump. But there’s a big difference between the two. Cruz wants smaller government. Trump just wants to run it, and make it great. Trump criticized Scott Walker for cutting spending. That wasn’t years ago in some off-hand remark to Howard Stern, that was 3 weeks ago. You’re not going to get smaller government with Donald Trump.
I hate illegal immigration. If I thought for a second Trump would actually start deporting all the illegals leeching off the system, maybe I’d consider him. I don’t believe him. I actually trust Cruz more. At least he voted against the Gang of 8 bill.
The last betting market odds I saw had Cruz and Trump with about equal chances to get the nomination. The bookmakers almost always have it right, and I think they have it right this time. Cruz or Trump could be the nominee.