'He's got the right personality,' Bob Dole said of billionaire Donald Trump,
'and he's kind of a deal-maker.'
Dole was the Republicans' Senate leader in the 1990s, and was the party's presidential candidate in 1996. Dole today is a corporate lobbyist. Dole's view — that Trump is fine, but conservative Sen. Ted Cruz is unacceptable — is the standard view in the Republican parts of K Street.
Lobbyists prefer Trump to Cruz for many reasons, but the core of the issue is this: Trump will preserve the lobbyists' incomes and power, while Ted Cruz might crimp K Street's style...
Dole was the Republicans' Senate leader in the 1990s, and was the party's presidential candidate in 1996. Dole today is a corporate lobbyist. Dole's view — that Trump is fine, but conservative Sen. Ted Cruz is unacceptable — is the standard view in the Republican parts of K Street.
Lobbyists prefer Trump to Cruz for many reasons, but the core of the issue is this: Trump will preserve the lobbyists' incomes and power, while Ted Cruz might crimp K Street's style...