It is foolish and wrong for anyone to assume that they would resist going in favor of Trump once the duress is removed from them.
Delegates can flip both ways. And one who is so easily flips one direction may just as easily be flipped the other.
Unless somebody in the Cruz campaign stops the hemorrhaging, by the time the convention rolls around delegates pledged to him may be looking for a way out. The stench of his behavior is not playing well with middle America. We are on to you Ted Cruz!!!
The self-absorbed Cruz wants us to believe he's s-o-o-o-o smart at playing the delegate game. But what Cruz is doing doesn't take smarts. It takes deviousness and cunning by a deeply-flawed individual w/ no sense of honesty and fair play.
Rigging the system for oneself in full view of voters is not very smart.
As MIA-ecc11212 insightfully opined: "the stench of Cruz's behavior is not playing well with middle America. America is on to Ted Cruz!!!"
This is amply demonstrated by Cruz collapsing in most polls.