Cruz is a spoiler now. He can steal some delegates using the arcane gotcha rules in some states plus whatever he can get coming in second place in most states hoping to simply deny Trump the 1237. He then believes that the GOP will annoit him. And they may even do that as an act of self preservation because is will guarantee a hillary win. They will even feed hillary intelligence in the background to help her. This will preserve the party in their mind.
That is the game, even if the Cruz campaign, along with the press (for the moment) is touting Wisconsin as a "turning point" in the campaign.
The reality is April 19 is the NY primary with 95 delegates. Unless Cruz wins 61 of them, his "margin" or "cushion" of 34 delegates to lose will be gone. So after April 19, Cruz falls into the Katich mathematically un-winable zone of reaching 1,237 delegates.
Yea, I have been thinking that R. Priebus could be first GOP national chairman in history to vote Democrat!
Why will Cruz winning the nomination guarantee a Hillary wn?
No ... on the remote chance that Cruz would prevail in an "open" convention the issues of his citizenship or his financial connections or his infidelities or something else yet to come will be pushed to the limit to prevent Cruz from remaining as the Republican nominee. This will be attributed to the Socialist Democrat Party, but it actually come from the GOPEs.