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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

A GOP insider on why the party went Trump

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Trump Is Uniquely Dangerous

Would you have worked for Cruz if he was the guy in the 2016 presidential campaign? That's a really good question because this exact counterfactual is something that I just spent a lot of time mulling over by myself. The notion that maybe he would have allowed me to do the general election but working for Ted Cruz White House, I think probably would have caused me to get a divorce. But I did see Trump as uniquely dangerous in a way that Cruz wasn't.

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