Cruz: No Interest in Replacing Gaetz as Trump's AG Nominee
Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Ted Cruz, R-Texas, quickly rejected speculation Thursday that he might be in contention to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee soon after ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., withdrew as the nominee. “I am staying right…
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where I am,” Cruz told reporters. “I am not going anywhere.” Cruz was Texas’ attorney general before his election to the Senate in 2012 and is likely to take over as Senate Commerce chairman in January when Republicans reclaim a majority in the chamber (see 2411060043). Gaetz, who as a House Judiciary Committee member was involved in the panel’s work on antitrust and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702 issues (see 2404120044), withdrew amid some Republican senators’ clear misgivings about confirming him to lead DOJ given he was the subject of a House Ethics Committee probe into sexual misconduct claims.