The dumb thing about it is that it locks them in to that difficult, traditional republican pathway to 270 electoral votes.
We know the states. Drop Ohio or Florida and you are dead meat.
Losing Virginia kills you, too, any more.
Cruz lost all 3 of those.
Trump wasn't the top vote-getter in any of the three. So let's go by the standard already in place instead of inventing new ones that favor Trump.