Wrong! The election has not happened yet, every vote for Tom is a vote for Cruz and a vote for the LA Times and their sleazy tactics. Put a fork in Tom, he is not intelligent enough to realize that his entire campaign is just gonna look like him standing with a gun to his head saying "Vote for me, or this guy gets it!"
Practicality man, learn it, better to get half a loaf than no bread at all and empty wheat fields.