Meanwhile, several Capitol Hill staffers, including a congressional chief of staff, and a number of state GOP staffers, have begun peddling their resumes to Trump’s campaign, according to a source involved in those back-channel conversations. “Everybody wants on the bus before it leaves the station,” he said.

History has shown that the political establishment always wins. Amidst this strange election cycle in which establishment candidates have fallen by the wayside, some establishment Republicans appear willing to win just by switching teams.