Why would the GOPe want this to happen? They must knoww this will end BADLY.
As long as the GOPe gets rid of Trump, it’s a win-win for them. They know that Cruz will lose the general, because he couldn’t stand up to 48 hours of the incoming that Trump has had coming his way for months. Then, they not only get to keep their jobs, because Hillary won, but they’ll also get to hold Cruz’ Goldwater-like loss over the heads of ‘uppity’ conservatives. They’ll fulfill their own prophecy that a ‘conservative’ can’t win.
If by some miracle, Cruz did pull it off, they own him, so he does their bidding. And he’ll call it ‘true conservatism’ while doing it, so they’ll get to destroy that meaningless term even more.