Premeditated backstabbing?
Or recognizing a 17-candidate field with a flamboyant front-runner could lead to multiple convention ballots, so a serious presidential candidate worked state-by-state conventions and caucuses?
You’re so far gone you no longer even grasp the concept of backstabbing. Cruz is an Adult Child of Alcoholics. When a person hitches their wagon to such a star, ethics are the first casualty.