In an interesting article about the rapprochement between President-elect Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz, Politico’s Eliana Johnson reports that when Cruz met with Trump in New York a week after the presidential election Team Trump “sounded out” Cruz about filling the Supreme Court vacancy resulting from the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
We reported about Cruz visiting Trump Tower and the speculation that Trump might nominate Cruz for the Supreme Court.
Johnson now reveals that Cruz, “swatted down” the idea that he would fill the Scalia vacancy:
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According to Johnson, several of Cruz’s closest allies said that he rejected a potential Supreme Court nomination because he is fundamentally a political creature — a passionate advocate for the causes he believes in. Cruz still wants to be president and, at the age of 45, still thinks he can pull it off. Other Cruz allies think that Cruz might change his mind should additional Supreme Court vacancies occur.
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Cruz Rejected Potential SCOTUS Nomination – In an interesting article about the rapprochement between President… https://t.co/zE4MPvTzK8
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Trump would have never nominated Cruz. He would have dangled him on a string like he did Romney to humiliate him. Hopefully Cruz realized this and wouldn’t play along. Romney didn’t seem to catch on.
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