“No way should Cruz be anywhere near Donald.”
Really. Knives in the back can be so painful. I wouldn’t trust Cruz within a mile of Trump.
The point of a cabinet appointment is often to put the yoke on an adversary and have them in your service instead of out on the loose and plotting freely against you. Or, as LBJ once put it, “I would rather have the S.O.B. inside my tent pissing out than outside pissing in.”