However, he's smart enough to know the establishment will nominate Ryan, Romney or Jeb at a brokered convention - never Cruz.
No, Cruz believes, with good reason, that if Trump can't get to the required number of delegates that he (Cruz) would win on a 2nd or 3rd ballot. Kasich seems to believe the same. That is what is keeping both of them in the race.
1/10 on the attempt to conceal your anti-Trump vanity as something other than what it really is. Been done too many times already in one form or the other, so your lacking in originality here.
Somebody who’s as good a test taker as Cruz - he must have aced SAT and LSAT - is bright enough to know that he’s delivering the nomination to Ryab Rimney or Jeb by giving them an “open” convention. But someone as calculating as Cruz has to have an angle: I figure the fix is in for Ted as VP on the doomed ticket