Cruz Builds Case as Unlikeliest Unifier of Republican Party
With Trump bruised after Wisconsin, Republicans are beginning to realize that Cruz is their last chance.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz greets supporters after the polls closed on April 5, 2016, in Milwaukee.
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The young Ted Cruz was exactly the kind of dynamic attorney that, on paper, any influential law firm would have hired. He was a Princeton graduate, editor of the Harvard Law Review, and a clerk for William Rehnquist, the then-chief justice.
So Cruz’s application at Gibson Dunn’s appellate division in Washington, a firm eager to hire clerks from any of the court’s conservative justices, should have been a slam dunk.