He needs a clean break from the Bush crowd. His ties with their political machine didn’t help him in this presidential race.
The Bushes did NOT support Cruz when he an for the senate. They supported his opponent, David Dewhurst.
I don’t think it really hurt, either.
W and GHWB are still fairly well respected in here in Texas.
Trump will need support from these same people, and from what I have been reading, he is starting to get some of the Cruz backers to align with him. That’s a good thing.
Cruz will get those same people back on his next run for Senate, and POTUS if he decides to do that again.
And why not? He has proven to be the most conservative Senator we have had from Texas in my lifetime.
Surely more conservative that Hutchison and Cornyn were ever going to be.