The Grand Ole Party is adrift after being hit by the Trump Tsunami. Unmoored, the party, bobbing in the surf, simply has no idea where to go from here.

But there’s more bad news in the wake of the party’s unexpectedly vibrant and visceral discussion: While voters have turned out in historic numbers to vote in the primary, the long, vitriolic battle has begun to take its toll on its strongest backers. The GOP Establishment has done everything it could to prevent Donald Trump’s rise in the polls, but all that has done is fuel the billionaire businessman’s march to victory. Now, the worry is: Will the party be united come Election Day — especially if it’s … him?

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“It is essential to victory in November that we all support our candidate,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said at the party’s spring meeting. “This goes for everyone, whether you’re a county party chairman, an RNC member, or a presidential candidate. Politics is a team sport, and we can’t win unless we rally around whoever becomes our nominee.”

Priebus is a latecomer to supporting Trump — he refused to back him early on — so his sudden kumbaya moment won’t help matters much.

Right now, a third of Republican voters who support Trump would either stay home, support a third-party candidate, or switch parties and vote for the Democratic nominee if Trump is denied the nomination in a contested convention, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed. While party voters have been stoked all year, the dissension at the top appears to be scotching their good time.

It’s no secret that the Establishment of the Republican Party has been at odds with Trump. But with that recognition comes the responsibility of supporting his candidacy, should he be the party’s nominee. Priebus is hoping that by taking a stance and advocating for party unity, people in the Never Trump movement will follow suit as the primary calendar winds down and give Republicans a shot at winning the White House in November — even if it means supporting Trump.

Tough task for Priebus. Overall, 63 percent of Republicans believe that the nomination process is hurting the Republican Party’s image, according to Gallup polling. But one thing has remained consistent throughout the primary process — Trump has remained atop the polls, despite the best efforts to stop him. That could well be driving Priebus’s newfound support for Trump.

There are signs that the new unity movement is moving GOP delegates as they start to realize that, while they may support another candidate, Trump has increasingly become the likely nominee. In recent weeks, there has been a delegate sweep by a well-organized Sen. Ted Cruz in states such as Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire, and Virginia, where Trump has dominated the vote but lost his lion’s share of delegates. While the onslaught continues — he won five states last Tuesday — the mood is starting to change.

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“I think [last Tuesday’s vote] spooked a lot of people,” Jim Poolman, a North Dakota delegate who had previously committed to a first-ballot convention vote for Cruz, told National Review. “But I want to be clear, I think the will of the people does mean something, as well,” he said. “Donald Trump has gotten a lot of support across the country, and just [last Tuesday], winning five [states] is one heckuva showing.” Poolman now says he will opt to see how the remaining primaries play out, and is “not necessarily” a first-ballot vote for Cruz.

While Cruz has enticed unbound delegates in North Dakota, Colorado, and Wyoming, they can change who they support. And they might already be switching their support. Five delegates in North Dakota are expressing serious concerns about voting for Cruz on the first ballot, National Review said. Many cited Trump’s momentum and sweeping victories in the last primaries as their reason.

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But Cruz, unconcerned about the future — or present — of the GOP, is looking for a contested convention. “Regardless of what happens in Indiana, Donald Trump is not getting to 1,237,” Cruz said  on “Fox News Sunday.” “No one is getting to 1,237. We are headed to a contested convention. I’m going to have a ton of delegates at that convention, Donald’s going to have a ton of delegates, and it’s going to be a battle to see who can earn a majority.”

Which way the delegates go in the convention in July could shred the Republican Party — if the nomination is stolen from the candidate with a majority of the vote. Voters will feel left out, thwarted by the very system they voted against in the primary. Trump currently has a majority of the delegates. He alone has capitalized on voter anger, crafting a narrative that if he is denied the nomination, the will of the people would have been supplanted by the Establishment.

If Trump doesn’t get the nomination despite having the majority of delegates and votes, the GOP will splinter further into a party that may be beyond repair.

Trump, in his characteristically cavalier style, said he couldn’t care less about the whole kerfuffle. It’s clear no one has been able to stop Trump’s momentum and he plans to blow past the rest of the field — with or without the support of the GOP. “I don’t think it matters, but it would be nice to have the Republican Party come together,” Trump said at a Sunday campaign event.

“With that being said, I think I’ll win anyway.”