These guys' "frontrunnerdom" is a gift of the lying, self-interested MSM spinmeisters.
The New York Times pulled this same crap by booming up Nelson Rockefeller in the 1960's. On the eve of the 1964 convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco that nominated the great Barry Goldwater, pollsters asked likely or already-chosen delegates to the convention two questions:
The delegates' answers were, Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller had nothing like the delegate support Goldwater did, but the Timesmen succeeded in sowing enough doubt among conservative delegates by their incessant spinning, that a Rockefeller coup d'etat in the convention could have worked.
That's what liberals do. They lie, then they cheat and steal.
Oh, and then later on they recriminate and cover up and point fingers and send people to reeducation camps.
You got that spot on...
How'd that work out?