Not sure what you mean by ‘this’ universe....but until we have a nominee we don’t have one. What we do have is a race in which nobody has been declared as a win....we also have a race that the media keeps moving the lines of what they are framing this race and it’s various goal posts along the way.
I’ll remain in the mode of ‘it’s not over’ until one or the other candidate is declared the winner or bows out. Neither Cruz nor Trump appears to being doing that where things stand now or in the weeks ahead.
Reality check:
For all practical purposes, it’s already over.
Cruz is not even in the conversation any more. Not only is his chance to win an actual zero, but he has made himself so odious to the base that even a coup at the convention won’t make him the nominee. He has only one reason to continue, and that is to enable such a coup. But he won’t be the beneficiary thereof, guaranteed.
The only question moving forward is whether one prefers Trump or an establishment-picked nominee who is guaranteed to lose to Clinton.
The facts on the ground make this a very straightforward situation, right here, right now.