Personally I sure would like to see both candidates come together, that would be the best outcome. If Cruz ran as VP, the issue of NBC has 4 years to be worked out. If successful, then he can run as President in 4 years and hopefully the conservative issues folks care about can be addressed, after the basic 3 issues trump needs to solve (stop de-industrialization, fix the border deport the illegals)are dealt with. Cruz as VP would hopefully solve the Supreme justice issue, not even Reagan managed to appoint good ones.
I think Cruz supporters would support Trump, and Trump supporters will support Cruz, if they bury the hatchet as above. The only way I see the hatchet being buried (other than in each others head) is if they can be a joint ticket, and if the current trajectory in votes continues that would mean Cruz as a VP. I very much doubt he is inclined to that.
Were the situation reversed, I believe Trump would also not accept a VP slot.
If Cruz goes in to the convention with fewer delegates, far fewer votes (3 to 3.5 million less) and somehow manages to get the nomination on a globalist plank, I see a large number of Trump voters sitting it out or writing in Trump as a protest vote come November. Also the large number of cross over working class folks have no incentive to vote Cruz with his current stances. Yes he is best on supreme court justices, but to people seeing the US economy being hollowed out to aid those at the top, well a pox on their houses.
If Cruz gets the nomination but adopted the Trump nationalist Plank, he might mitigate that somewhat. But that means he and Trump burying the hatchet and getting a real endorsement from Trump, which I doubt Trump is inclined to do. Trump has a real ego and I think Cruz has stepped on it.
In that case I still think the best course of action is to go with a dark horse candidate, a governor who runs on a nationalist US plank, one that can garner both Cruz and Trump fans. Both sets will be disappointed, but neither will have to eat each others sh-t (so to speak).
Cruz has zero likeability and zero cross over capability.
He should go be VP with Trump. It is his last attempt to win and anyone else but Trump as President will lose this.
Write this down and see how it goes down. There will be no Republican win without Trump in the lead, even if he graciously gets screwed at the convention and backs the Republican loser.
Cruz or the OTHER GOPe candidates will lose to Hillary.
I myself the way this is going might just hang it up until next year. We will have a lot of Hillary hell coming.