Anti-Trump Republicans to launch ad buys in swing states

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

In the primaries for your party, the candidates are all relatively similar. Yeah you have "establisment shill" and "outsider" and "conservative champion" but everyone agrees on a clear majority of the issues. So if you're going nowhere, just drop out and try again in 4 years. None of your opponents are all THAT bad.

But in the general, it's different. If you drop out, you're handing the election to the other major party candidate. Yeah, the party leaders could replace Trump, but they'd have to find someone really good at both fundraising and appeal to Trump enthusiasts WITHOUT offending everyone else. It just seems difficult.

Also, the party leaders might have to pay Trump some amount of money to get him to drop out. It just kinds of seems weird that the same party leaders who declared Trump the presumptive nominee before Kasich dropped out of the race, the same party leaders who selected the rules committee that actually strengthened delegate binding, the same party leaders who whipped states into withdrawing their names from both a roll call rules vote petition and a Cruz nomination speech petition (the latter would have actually been totally fruitless thanks to the binding), the same party leaders who ensured nobody would run against Pence for VP, and the same party leaders who creatively interpreted the rules to ensure that the roll call would contain as many votes for Trump as possible, would suddenly turn around and pay their candidate a large sum of money to drop out of the race.