A Politico article featuring an unnamed source whose accuracy is either made up or based on his say-so, as it is unverifiable, is most likely trying to seed the outcome rather predict it.
These guys were predicting John Ellis Bush, before.
I’m not worried. They don’t have a ground game, either. They won’t turn many Trump and Cruz delegates.
If it was the only article and only source your point would be valid but there are articles all over supporting it from ones where both Cruz and Trump are locked out of the rules committees to ones where party insiders are posing as delegates for both Cruz and Trump.
It also makes sense since Cruz is hated by the DC insider crowd they would love to back-stab him like this.
They were not just predicting...The entire set up with 16 candidates was designed to give the job to Bush...