Ted Cruz

I'm not sure.

I mean, it's extemporaneous, and he can, like the Rosie O'Donnell line that Ireland can keep her, that's just kind of him riffing.

But I got to say, he also, the courage he's shown has been extraordinary.

And look, the Supreme Court thing, he's brought up a lot of times, and you know that I've told him that my answer is not just no to that, but hell no, that I don't want to be a judge.

I want to be in the political fight, and the right place to be in the political fight is exactly where I am now.

Well, look, and a lot of people are surprised when they hear that I don't want to be a judge because a lot of my life, my whole career before being in the Senate was a Supreme Court litigator.

And so that's what I did for a living is represented Texas and represented private clients arguing before the U.S.

Supreme Court.

And it's an institution I revere.

I care deeply about having principled constitutionalists on the court.

The reason, and people are sometimes really surprised, like, why would you not want that?

And the reason is a principled federal judge stays out of politics, stays out of policy.

So, for example, we talked about the two huge victories that I authored that are in the working families tax cut, school choice and the Trump accounts.

If I were a judge, I couldn't do either one of them.

And I want to be fighting for victories like that.

I want to be fighting to secure the border.

I want to be fighting to enhance our national defense.

I want to be fighting to cut taxes and repeal job-killing regulations.

And if you want to do that, the place to do it is in the elected branches of government.

Amen.