Cruz is not in the race for a first ballot win, as even he knows that’s not possible for him.
He is playing for a 3rd ballot win against the wishes of a plurality of GOP primary voters.
And, to top it off, that hubris and ego actually believes the GOPe promises made to him.
He’s too stupid and gullible to even be considered for the office.
Or, he’s a fully pledged member of the GOPe.
The hubris is Cruz trying to steal the nom from millions of Trump voters while calling his delegate confidence trick “the will of the voters”. Cruz is just as delusional as his followers it seems.
As Pat Buchanan points out, we do need to do our best to get along with people who have been supporting to Cruz. We must try to convince them that even if they do not like Trump that he will lead the country in a way that is vastly superior to what would happen if Hillary was elected.
One of the first arguments that I get when discussing the election with Cruz people is that Cruz is somehow going to get the nomination in a brokered convention. They realize that Cruz will have no mathematical way to get the majority of delegates before the election. But they are very excited about the unlikely prospect that the GOP establishment will give it to them at the convention. By the convention Trump will have several million more votes than Cruz and hundreds more delegates. But Cruz supporters believe that there is nothing wrong with disenfranchising millions of voters by trying to install Cruz people as Trump's pledged delegates.
How is it that the people claiming to be the most moral, Christian, conservative people can advocate this type of thing? What is wrong with their moral compass? It goes right along with their willingness to overlook all of the sneaky stuff that the Cruz campaign has pulled this cycle. They also think that it is alright when Cruz deliberately misleads people. How do you win over people who think that this offensive behavior is alright?