Perhaps not, but if the choice had been just Trump or Clinton, then Trump was the better choice.
Except the choice wasn't Trump or Hillary for the first year of the campaign.
You are talking about the primaries, but the primaries were not the election. They were setting up the election.
My point is that the longest stretch of the campaign wasn't "Hillary or Trump". Yeah, it was pretty much Hillary on the Democrat's side, but the Republican's had SO many people to choose from. To say he was the only choice is ignoring the many months that 16 other people were running.
I understand your point, but in the end, your point is moot.
It is a moot point, but it was in response to the OP pointing out that Kellyanne Conway was a Cruz supporter. I don't think half the people who pretend to support Trump ever really wanted him to be President. It's similar to 2012's "anybody but Romney" primaries. And guess who won the primaries. The one guy nobody seemed to want to win the primaries.
The Republican party has been in a weird place for the past thirty years. They don't seem to like anybody they voted for. Bush Sr., Bush Jr., McCain, Romney... Yeah, they seem to like Trump now, but they also seemed to like all the others until after the fact.
I agree with this. Until he actually secured the nomination, I was sure he would not be the candidate.