President Donald Trump “seriously” discussed nominating Sen. Ted Cruz to the U.S. Supreme Court during the president’s first term, but the Texas Republican says he declined to seek the role.
“In the first Trump term, the president spoke to me seriously about all three vacancies, and three times I said no,” Cruz said on Wednesday at a Wall Street Journal event. “Because I don’t want to be out of the arena of the political battle. I think there’s too much need there.”
