You are just not getting it. There is no realistic scenario where Cruz gets the nomination. If he denies Trump the nomination, he opens the door for the GOPe to install their choice as nominee. Since you refuse to acknowledge that salient fact, there really isn’t any point continuing this discussion.
If he denies Trump the nomination, he opens the door for the GOPe to install their choice as nominee.
This scenario is obvious on its face; it’s the only possible explanation for Kasich’s remaining in the race...it appears the party’s thinking is this; regardless of nominee, FL is a get from 2012, and possibly IA or CO, maybe both with the right guy. Maybe even VA, though that is a bit of a stretch. And the big cherry on top? OH, of course, with its own governor bringing the state over from the 2012 map...all the above, excepting VA, gets the Pubs to 268 EV’s, where picking up NH could get them over the top...
Neither Trump nor Cruz is likely to garner 268 EV’s in their calculus; Kasich is. And they will move mountains to make that happen...
Donald Trump is the Democratic candidate who was never nominated after 1972 -- he might be the guy Bill "Blue Dog [Phony]" Clinton pretended to be in 1992, to get the nomination. But he's a mainline Democrat, circa 1970.
The implication of Trump's success so far is that we're unable to nominate a conservative any longer (if you're right about Cruz, but we'll never find out if we take your advice), the GOP is unable to win any longer with their Mitts and Doles and Bushes, and the old mainline Democrats are migrating over to the GOP, but the PRC doesn't want them, they want George P. Bush, Marco Rubio, and a Latin-GOP future.