Uriah

That's not true. Cruz was a pretty hard immigration restrictionist; why we had to get nonsense about his "ugliness" & "lying."

Let's say it is true, anyway. Trump has a 35% of being elected right now, at Hillary's worst moments.

A generic R, who maybe didn't get it like Trump does, would be trouncing her. Which is more: 35% * 1, vs 60-70% * 0.8?

A generic R (Kasich, Rubio, Jeb) would far more likely to pass amnesty than Hillary.

Cruz does no better than Trump in general and is way more likely to defect on immigration if given the chance.

Flatly false. Trump has committed two bad own goals already that the very organized Cruz would never have committed.

Indeed, Trump is likely to underperform his polling because of his weak data & GOTV operations, sthing Cruz excelled at.

Maybe, but Trump outperformed polls in 40 of 50 states. Reverse outcome is just as likely.