Your long comment is food for thought...That sounds extremely feasible seeing as the way things have gone for the last month...
Cruz “looked good” for a while...When Trump started pulling away, the Cruz true colors began to show...
Cruz “looked good” as long as he needed to look good. Then he and his gopE backers realized they’d never win the Trump supporters over so they allowed him to show his true colors so he could get the establishment votes PLUS keep his blind followers’ votes.