You are right, but I can't help how you read my words. Like Dee Snyder said to Al Gore "Your wife was looking for bondage and rape and she found it"
Those two that dropped out...right when they did and that exact time...has totally manipulated the odds. I have posted them over and over. They did that. Their endorsements, which are clearly for their benefit (I would do the same thing, we all would) so that they can get either WHO THEY WANT IN or to get a favor later...is sketchy and manipulative.
But like you said, it is literally how elections work.