A Trump-Cruz Race Forces Republican Elites to Choose Sides
Siding against Cruz at this point is foolish for them only if these party leaders have profound ideological disagreements with Trump, but they are assuming they don’t have any because they believe Trump is conning his voters. That also happens to be Cruz’s argument against Trump, and so these party leaders are ending up more on Trump’s side in part because they think Cruz is right about Trump’s phoniness.