A better alternative answer is that kasich by himself can’t force a contested convention, so there’s no point in staying in.
It makes more sense to believe Cruz and trump had a non-aggression pact until only those polling reasonably well remained. After that it was blood sport best man wins.
Looks like the deal was made. Kasich will be the VP candidate.
No doubt. Kasich dropped out once his RINO mission was done.
Huckabee dropped out when he failed.
And WHO, exactly, is the insider? HA.
If you do, you don't know too much about the egos of driven men who ply the political major leagues.
It's every man for himself and by himself for various good or bad reasons.....and ego and ambition are the driving forces for different good or bad goals.
Inwardly, the three amigos under discussion undoubtedly loathe each other.
I don't buy at all the posit that any of the three were colluding with each other in any way.
Leni
Is there any truth to the rumor that Kasich is really Hillary’s twin sister who was given male growth hormones as an infant?
Kasich was in it for the free food.
Kasich voters were if anything Trump voters, not Cruz ones.
It was now a done deal, Trump would not be facing a brokered convention, so no reason to continue. The donors saw that and said they were moving on to better pastures anyway. So that was the end, Kasich was finished as soon as Cruz dropped out.
End of story.
But... I still think it was that tweet I sent him. Laugh. Laugh all you want. Yup. It was my tweet. Then he dropped out. Thank me some other time. I said, “Kasich, there is a pancake house at (address) that says they will honor you with free tall stacks and coffee every single Monday morning for the rest of the year if you drop out”... and he did.
Looks that way to me.
Kasich was Trump’s ‘ground game’.
Trump negotiated a deal with Kasich sometime back for him to stay in.
Trump’s ground game was much better than Cruz’s ground game.
Both Kasich and Cruz continued running in the hope that Trump wouldn't hit 1237 on the first ballot. Second and subsequent ballots, who knew? Cruz hoped many delegates bound to Trump on the first ballot would defect to him on later ballots. After all, didn't he know enough to court them at their caucuses, unlike the overconfident Donald? As for Kasich, it was well known that the GOP-e hates both Cruz and Trump, so he thought maybe he stood a chance of emerging from the chaos as the compromise nominee.
Indiana's result has made a first ballot win for Trump extremely likely. Therefore, both Cruz and Kasich have dropped out. Obvious, no?
In 1860, the first Republican president was nominated on the fourth ballot. But they didn't have primaries back then. Now they do. Today a candidate chosen chosen in that manner would be seen by many as illegitimate. After all, Trump would be going in with the most votes, so why shouldn't he be the nominee, even if he didn't get a majority of the delegates on the first ballot? It's not good for a party's nominee to be seen as illegitimate. Not even if the rules were followed scrupulously.
Cruz tried to thread a needle/out manuver them and win anyway.
Didn't work, but credit Cruz for trying against near impossible odds.
And honestly-When I saw the riots in So Cal and the one with kids in the sombraros carrying the Mexican flags flipping off and yelling eff you to people going to the Trump rally- I said to my family that I thought the rioters had just handed the GOP nomination to Trump.