That's exactly what it did. It got them to support Trump. For a long time the party has had a fortunate synergy of "red meat" issues that constituents care about and business interests who for some reason think that Hillary Clinton hates Goldman Sachs (but pays her $8000 a minute to hear what she has to say.) Note how "pro business" republicans will pay lip service to the Teslas and Ubers of the world until the local car dealers and taxi medallion owners want to stop them.

So much money gets thrown at anybody who passes the "litmus tests" that the the Republican party has a field of 17 losers who all looked alike and they were bowled over effortlessly by someone who could pick and choose from the litmus test issues to make a message that actually sells.

If there was not so much money for conservative candidates there might have been fewer candidates and it would have been easier for somebody serious to get some traction. Look at how $100 million got spent on those stupid "Ted Cruz is a flip flopper, you always know where Jeb stands, he stands in the same place as Rhett Butler, Han Solo, and Hillary Clinton..." ads -- in the Citizens United age, spending huge amounts of $$ just makes you look like a jackass.