Cruz not sweating potential Trump wins tonight

The Worst Web Site in the World can sometimes offer useful insight when they get people to talk on the record and for attribution, and that's what they did here with Ted Cruz research director and pollster Chris Wilson concerning the outlook on tonight's key races in Florida and Ohio. It's quite the conundrum if you're a Cruz supporter. On the one hand, you'd see a Kasich win in Ohio (which seems at least a 50-50 possibility) and a Rubio victory in Florida (which appears to be slipping away, although you never know) as useful in the sense that they at least deny Trump the massive haul of 165 delegates he would take from capturing both winner-take-all contests. But the problem with Kasich winning Ohio and Rubio winning Florida is that both men would presumably then stay in the race. Cruz wants them out as soon as possible to line up the two-man race with Trump that Cruz is convinced he can win. So is Cruz willing to take the short-term hit of two Trump wins tonight if it clears the field for him? Apparently he is, believing he has an excellent chance to recover next Tuesday in Arizona and Utah - and that from that point on a two-man race favors him heavily: