Tribe is right in theory, and this is part of building tension so the CRBA can serve as an effective releif.
I believe that must be what TRUMP wants him to do, to put it to rest.
Why he cares, I do not know. Not in my wildest dream would TRUMP pick Cruz for VP. Jeff Sessions, maybe, but not Cruz with the immigration baggage and the TPA kabuki, and the increased numbers of foreign high skilled workers, and Cruz yakking it up about “pathways to ‘legalization’ “ as a reward to invaders. TRUMP can not go to Cruz on his (TRUMP) signature issue.