It’s not about Trump. It’s about punishing Senator Marco Rubio and Governor John Kasich.
Aside from Donald Trump, no one in the Republican Party is actually running for president anymore. They are simply running to stop Trump. In theory, Conservatism Inc. is uniting behind Ted Cruz, as National Review has finally endorsed the Texas Senator after playing footsie for months with Marco Rubio [Ted Cruz for President, National Review, March 11, 2016]. But Cruz is all but irrelevant in the two most critical primaries on Tuesday, the winner-take-all states of Florida and Ohio. There, anti-Trump forces are demanding people exercise a complicated plan of “strategic voting” and support Rubio and John Kasich in their respective home states. ...