How about Mike Lee? He's Cruz's BF and probably okay with Trump, they reckon.
Prominent conservatives are lobbying Donald Trump to say that he will nominate Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to the Supreme Court if he’s elected president. ...
... As President Obama travels to the University of Chicago this afternoon to deliver a speech calling for Merrick Garland’s confirmation, Senate Republican leaders are expressing confidence they can hold firm through the November election in refusing to grant him even a hearing. If Hillary Clinton wins in November, there will be pressure to quickly confirm Garland so that she could not appoint someone who is younger and more liberal. If she loses, then the next Republican president will get to nominate someone else. ...WaPo
Although the lousy narrow track we've been maneuvering along for six years has turned into asphalt, you can count on the Republican Senate to end that smooth ride as fast as they can. Mike Lee is the guy who's held up aid for Flint in an effort to bury the Environmental Protection Agency. If things getmuch nastier, the Republican party may lose a bunch of bucks, not to mention votes.
Of all the teeth-gritting alliances being forged over opposition to Mr. Trump’s rampaging bid for the Republican presidential nomination, few are as unlikely as the emerging bond between Mr. Cruz and his party’s elite donor establishment.
Since Mr. Cruz’s election to the Senate in 2012, many traditional Republican donors have spurned him, viewing him as a hopeless ideologue whose antics — particularly his leading role in the 2013 government shutdown — damaged the party in service of his ambitions. ...NYT
