![]() ![]() He’s a politician that really has never cared much about anybody but himself.” Gilberto Hinojosa, the Texas Democratic Party chairman, may have put it best: “This is about as callous as any politician can get. Meanwhile, freezing Texans have been scavenging fallen trees to burn for heat so they don’t die. The average temperature in Cancun this week was in the 80s. “But I also have a responsibility that I take very seriously for the state of Texas and frankly, leaving when so many Texans were hurting didn’t feel right and so I changed my return flight and flew back on the first available flight I could take,” Cruz said. “That’s something Texans have been doing across the state.” In a previous statement, the senator claimed that he headed further south because his kids wanted to take a trip and he wanted to be a “good dad.” In a statement, Cruz attempted to apologize? I guess? “I started having second thoughts almost the moment I sat down on the plane, because on the one hand, all of us who are parents have a responsibility to take care of our kids, take care of our family,” he said to reporters. The Senator and his family definitely planned on partying it up in Cancun while Texans suffered and died. Except now, leaked texts show that that’s not true. ![]() Since those photos of Cruz leaving his constituents to die while he skipped off for a tropical vacay were decidedly not a good look, Cruz told reporters that he just made a quick trip down there to drop off his kids for their vacation, and then hastily returned to Texas to help out with disaster relief efforts. And now, as Texas is gripped by deadly winter storms, he tried to flee to Cancun - and then lied about it, leaked texts show.Įarlier this week, photos started circulating online that showed Cruz at the Houston airport and onboard a flight to the Mexican resort town, while millions of Texans are without power, heat, or drinkable water and temperatures across the state hover below freezing. ![]() Capitol, resulting in multiple people’s deaths. He’s the United States Senator who thinks that pregnancy isn’t life-threatening for women, who said that restaurant workers are too lazy to deserve unemployment amid a global pandemic, and who helped embolden insurrectionists to storm the U.S. Oh, look, proof that Ted Cruz lied about his trip to Cancun while Texans suffered in a deadly winter stormĪt this point, we don’t expect much from Ted Cruz. ![]()
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