Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said the incoming president is entering the White House as a “different Donald Trump” from the man who took office eight years ago.
In an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” Cruz said Trump has more experience and a better team behind him the second time.
“This team, this is a different Donald Trump that is being sworn in than in 2017, and there’s a whole lot of experience that has come,” Cruz said.
“I think the first term, there were some mistakes in Cabinet nominees and some nominees that he came to regret because they were people that were not fighting with him to accomplish his agenda,” Cruz added. “I think this, the current team of nominees, I think is really strong.”
Cruz said the “most consistent characteristic” among Trump’s nominees in his second term is “being a change agent” and having the mindset of “going in to change the culture of an institution.”
“The Trump team today is coming in with a much greater awareness of the challenges of the deep state, the challenges of embedded bureaucracies that in the first term really resisted a lot of what he wanted to do,” Cruz said. “And I think they’re much more effectively going to be able to turn the battleship in a direction that I think the American people expect.”
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