Cruz knows he’s toast. You could see it on his face tonight. It won’t be much longer before Ted will start getting phone calls. Trump is already reaching out to the party leaders to get them to coalesce around him.
Trump has been talking with the party bigs. Maybe he says OK, get off my back and I’ll raise my own general election money, so you can focus on keeping the House and Senate and helping downticket races. Why wouldn’t they go for it? Otherwise they get Cruz, who won’t deal with them at all, or they tear the party apart through trying to hijack the convention which will have BIG implications on the other R races.