Trump: This 'Collusion' Between Losers Cruz and Kasich is 'Desperate'   Guy Benson Apr 25, 2016

He's literally correct on both counts, of course. This is open, explicit collusion between two campaigns -- a pact of pure convenience, arising from desperation. Neither Cruz nor (especially) Kasich has any shot at the nomination if Trump clinches 1,237 delegates by June 8, or if the frontrunner seizes a victory on the first ballot in Cleveland. The whole ballgame, therefore, is delegate denial, an endeavor in which Cruz has done almost all of the heavy lifting. Every delegate plucked out of Trump's opening ballot column is a step closer to the multi-ballot convention around which both men's strategies now revolve. If either one felt fully confident that Trump wouldn't hit his marks between now and early June, this belated political marriage of necessity would never have materialized. But new polling trends evidently have both campaigns sufficiently spooked that a precarious alliance has been forged, with an eye toward ensuring that the anti-Trump vote isn't counterproductively diluted, this benefiting their mutual adversary. Speaking of whom, he isn't happy about any of this:

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