We'll be able to see if RNC, globalist 'pubs are part of the fix. They can stop hillary with a TedCruz/RandPaul ticket. Their intellectual energy and relative youth compared to hillary will win over those independents.
They wouldn't be identifying as "independent" if they wanted hillary. If they don't want her as pres already, they won't go to her when she's the obsolete haggard old witch with no new ideas and a lot of bad history. And that's how hillary would come across against Cruz/Paul.
You’re may be overlooking the voting “fix” at the polls.