“I’m here trying to take care of my family and look after my friends and others that are still without power,” Mr.
Cruz’s travel was appropriate while Texans are without power and water. “That’s something that he has to answer to his constituents about,” Texas GOP chair Allen West said when asked whether Mr. Billboards calling for his resignation stood along Texas highways earlier in the month.Įven the state Republican Party chair declined to come to Mr. More recently, he emerged as a leader in former president Donald Trump’s push to overturn the results of the November election. He was already one of the most villainized Republicans in Congress, having created adversaries across the political spectrum in a career defined by far-right policies and fights with the establishment. Cruz eyes a second presidential run in 2024. The statement did little to quell a fierce political backlash that comes as Mr. Cruz addressed his travels only hours after the Associated Press and other media outlets reported that he had travelled to Cancun on Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of Texans still grappling with the fallout of a winter storm that crippled the state’s power grid. “We want our power back, our water on, and our homes warm.” “Keep your family safe and just stay home and hug your kids.” Or, you know, use them as a scapegoat against mounting calls for your resignation.“My staff and I are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas,” he continued. He warned in a radio interview on Monday that as many as 100 people might die, advising his constituents to stay in their houses: “Don’t risk it,” he said. Realistically, it also sounds like Cruz understood the extremity of the winter weather battering Texas this week. NBC has since reported that Cruz was originally scheduled to leave Saturday, while text messages obtained by the New York Times reportedly indicate that his wife, Heidi, wanted to escape the family’s “FREEZING” Houston home with a long weekend at the Ritz-Carlton Cancún.īig suitcase for one night - MJ Lee February 18, 2021 Whether or not he always intended to simply drop off the kids in Cancún and then run right back to work was not immediately clear at the time of his statement, although as some pointed out on Twitter, he packed a pretty big bag for one night. Still, maybe he will better understand the scope of the catastrophe now that he has returned to the state. HAgnZaKAWT- Steve Herman February 18, 2021Ĭruz did not apologize, but he did say that he and his staff “are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas.” Notably, his statement makes no mention of those who have died as a result of the storm, nor those who accidentally carbon monoxide-poisoning themselves in desperate bids to heat their homes - only of the “food lines, gas lines, and people sleeping at the neighbors’ houses.” Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon.” His wife, a perfectly capable chaperone, will presumably stay behind with their daughters.Ĭonfirmation from he flew to #Mexico amid #TexasWinterStorm2021. “With school cancelled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends.
“Like millions of Texans, our family lost heat and power too,” Cruz explained. But according to the Texas senator himself - who issued a statement on Thursday, in the wake of airport Cruz sightings in both Houston and Mexico last night - he was just trying to score some parenting points. And, okay, yes, his decision to flee with his family as millions of others hunkered down in their dark, freezing homes - as the Texas death toll climbed past 20 people - admittedly does not look great! But please, Ted Cruz is begging you, do not blame him for this dereliction of duty: It was his daughters (ages 10 and 12) who wanted the vacation, and well, what was he going to do - simply say no?Ĭertainly, that would’ve been one option, some might even say the obvious option. Well, okay, yes, sure: Ted Cruz did take a little trip to Cancún while his state weathered an unprecedented (and ongoing) crisis.
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