Could you please rephrase the above sentence. I think is says something very savvy, but I'm unclear how dumping Cruz will deprive Trump of delegates.
I haven’t gone back to see how I could rephrase but I can restate the basics:
The sex scandal story had to leak sometime.
The question was when would it do the GOPe the most good?
Cruz is GOPe of course. So is Kasich. So was Rubio. All but Trump.
Trump gives a good, no — great — speech at AIPAC.
(Let’s say Trump’s speech is the tipping point for the GOPeCruzers to leak the story)
Cruz baits him with Melania GQ; then tries to pin the NE leak on Trump as the story rolls out.
Their hope was that putting out the story right now could potentially do Trump the most harm while least affecting CruzGOPe’s chances at stealing delegates from Trump.
(Thanks for asking, i got to clarify things in my own head.)