If one of the center-right candidates emerges after upcoming voting in Nevada and South Carolina, that candidate will receive a huge boost going into Super Tuesday and there will be a coalescence of GOP leaders and big donors around that candidate ahead of Super Tuesday. If the center-right candidates for the Plan C mantle continue to cancel each other out during the coming weeks, the chaos within the GOP establishment will become all-out panic.

In any event, sooner or later, there will be a visible and powerful anybody-but-Trump-or-Cruz movement and a high-noon showdown. The center-right candidate who emerges as the candidate of that movement could continue right up until the balloting for the nomination at the Republican National Convention.