Notice these appointments are for the "House Leadership Committee"...in other word, two guys were picked that are respected by their House peers, to make deals and pick up support/endorsements for Mr. Trump as they and their committee work the hundreds of representatives' smokey offices behind the walls of the House chamber.
These are specialized campaign jobs...and what good would it do the Trump campaign to chose a couple of purist, Cruz-type House reps....referring to the fact that no one, NO ONE in the Senate is endorsing the rigid, righteous Cruz...in fact they don't even like him.
Conservatives are so good on ideology and often so woefully lacking in knowledge and comprehension of the inner workings of hardball gut politics....and so generally unaware of what goes into selecting the proper people for certain specific types of assignments.
Leni
That’s a great point.
Both can talk to like minded people to draw support to Trump and his policies.
He’s not adopting theirs.
Nice deconstruction.