Now, the drive-bys are in a bit of a panic.
Fiorina fizzled. Carson crumbled. Rubio and Yeb never took off. I have cautioned people here for months that when Cruz's turn would come (and I always believed it would inevitably come) the drive-bys would---as they did with Carson and Fiorina---tout him as "winning." This is always done for the singular purpose of knocking out Trump, the one who not only CAN win but can effect massive change in the White House.
See if I'm right: If Cruz gets the lead, anywhere, for more than a poll or two, the adulatory pieces will stop and all of a sudden he will be Hitler to the drive-bys.