This does NOT mean that "Candidate X is better than Y" on the GOP side. So fight it out in the primaries and I will see you in the general.
Anent the “coronation” characterization, I was waiting
in the Baltimore bus station on the 15th, and the
Democratic “debates” were not only shown on the big screens
that all the seats in the station faced, but were being
broadcast on the speakers outside. Orwellian (Most ppl
in 1984 could not turn their TV off, one might recall)
The “debates” were not debates but mini-commercials, and
had a rather obvious “applause track”