I think there are many republican functionaries that don’t understand that the general appeal of the republican brand to most Trump supporters is dead forever.
If the repubs sacrifice Trump to their venal hope of office holding, most of us are never to support them in any form again.
I would vote to drop further down the socialist sewer in hopes of prompting instability before I would vote for scum like Kasich.
Republican functionaries have long ceased caring. It is an illusion. They have constituents, but they aren’t the voters. Neither party very much represents the voting public, for different reasons. We’re seeing the curtain pulled back, and they don’t like that very much.