Cruz: Justice Scalia won the election (Washington Examiner)
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said Friday that the late Justice Antonin Scalia emerged the victor of this month's elections.
Cruz told a standing-room only crowd at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention that the election results lifting President-elect Trump to the presidency could well be described as the "revenge of fly-over country." The Texas senator and former GOP primary rival to Trump indicated he thought the vacancy created by Scalia's death played a large role in the election results.
"President-elect Trump assured the American people that if elected, he would nominate a constitutionalist in the mold of Justice Scalia. So in a very real respect, Justice Scalia was on the ballot as well," Cruz said at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. "And thanks to the historic victory we saw last week, it gives me immense pleasure to say the people have spoken and Justice Scalia has won as well."