Cruz now open to brokered GOP convention

A week after saying that it would be “illegitimate” and “wrong” for party insiders at the Republican National Convention to nominate a presidential candidate against the wishes of most voters, Ted Cruz said Sunday that it would be fine if the convention chose between him and front-runner Donald Trump as long neither had achieved the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination on first ballot.

Yet he seemed to soften ahead of Tuesday’s five nominating contests in which, for the first time, all delegates in a given state will pledge to support that state’s winner rather than splitting up to reflect vote share.

Others, including 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, had suggested that Trump could still lose the nomination even if he entered the convention with a plurality of delegates pledged to him.