“You’ve got 53 Republicans in the Senate. And I think most Republican senators begin from a proposition that the president is entitled to choose his cabinet nominees. Now, there is a back and forth on it. And so the advice and consent is part of the Constitution.
“And by the way, when Joe Biden was president, that’s the same way Democrats approached it, which is they voted to confirm whoever he put up. You look at someone like Merrick Garland. I think Merrick Garland has been the most partisan and political attorney general the country’s ever seen.
“You look at someone like Alejandro Mayorkas, who opened up the border and caused an invasion at our southern border. ” – Sen. Ted Cruz, who voted against all of Biden’s nominees except Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin.