Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said the president-elect will enter the White House as a “different Donald Trump” than the one who took office eight years ago.
Cruz said in an interview on NewsNation's “The Hill Sunday” that Trump is more experienced and has a better team the second time around.
“This team is going to be in office with a different Donald Trump than it was in 2017. We've had a lot of experience,” Cruz said.
“I think there were some mistakes in the first term with the cabinet nominees and some of the nominees because they were people who didn't fight with him to get his policies accomplished. ,” Cruz added. “I think the current candidate team is really strong.”
Cruz said the “most consistent characteristics” among candidates for President Trump's second term are “being a change agent” and having the mindset of “actively working to change the culture of an organization.” He said it was true.
“Today's Trump team is much more aware of the deep state challenge, the embedded bureaucracy challenge that really resisted a lot of what he wanted to do in his first term,” Cruz said. he said. “And I think they can more effectively reorient the battleship in the direction that they think the American public expects.”
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