Conventional Wisdom: Cruz’s Delegates May Be Losing Faith

This is our new weekly politics newsletter, Conventional Wisdom, covering the wild and wacky world of delegate harvesting. (Sign up here.)I know FiveThirtyEight readers are all in a tizzy about tonight’s Met Gala (what will Rihanna wear?), but there is delegate news to be attended to before spending the day clicking through photo galleries of questionable couture; without further ado, the news from the provinces.CANDIDATEDELEGATES0Donald Trump9570Ted Cruz5460John Kasich1541Hillary Clinton1,6621Bernie Sanders1,373Delegate counts as of May 2Democratic count does not include superdelegates.Delegate leakage: Leading The New York Times digital front page on Sunday was a story of delegate leakage — the loss of unbound and second-ballot delegate support — and it wasn’t about usual suspect Donald Trump, who’s been known to lose out to delegate slates aligned with Ted Cruz at state conventions.