“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.