They don’t need to encourage, Trump and Cruz, that is going to happen naturally... neither one of them have a prayer winning a 3 man race while the other is viable, so until an establishment candidate rises from the crowd, Trump and Cruz will be going after each other...
Frankly if the first ads are any indication, Trump is going to beat Cruz down... other than Jeb!s boots were made for walking net video, I have to back to Carly’s Senate run commercial with the sheep to come up with an ad that I think is just completely off the mark than Cruz’s latest ad.
If Trump V Cruz isn’t settled before the establishment gets a single candidate, the establishment guy very much can win by plurality, this possibility is not dead yet.
The idea of the establishment backing Cruz? I don’t know, I think they would rather just go down in defeat than get in bed with him.... I honestly think they’d be more open to getting into bed with Trump than Cruz if they were able to.
Time will tell how this plays out, I do think if the establishment doesn’t have a candidate to rally around exclusively soon, end of Super Tuesday at the latest... Trump is the next President of the United States.
Cruz is an GOPe guy pretending he’s not.