The Surge Effect on the GOP Nomination

The surge effect is in the four corners of the primary contest to win the GOP nomination. It helps Trump because his base is catalyzed and none of the other candidates could get any traction if they didn't talk about him all the time. I think there's a trajectory of this that's pretty simple. They want him to win the nomination, then they think Biden can beat him in the in general and it teeing up Steve Hayward out in California. What does it tell us that now they're not applying same standard of judgment to Trump but its on its face problematic?