(CNN)Sen. Ted Cruz and his family flew to Cancun, Mexico, as a winter disaster in his home state left millions without power or water, according to photos posted on social media and confirmed to CNN by a person familiar with the travel itinerary.
Analysis: Cruz's Cancun trip violates an unwritten rule of politics Multiple Twitter users posted photos showing Cruz and his family at Houston's airport and aboard a flight bound for Cancun, Mexico. The same person familiar with the trip confirmed to CNN that Cruz is booked on a flight from Cancun back to Houston on Thursday afternoon.
Senator Ted Cruz flew to Cancun, Mexico, with his family this week as Texas dealt with a winter storm that as of Thursday still has left 500,000 without power, Fox News has confirmed.
Photographs of Cruz (R-Texas) at an airport began circulating on social media late Wednesday, with people alleging that the senator had left the state for Cancun amid a major crisis. A Republican source told Fox News that the allegations that Cruz was traveling to the Mexican city are true
Carter Watson
He is such a scumbag, but the good ol’ boys in Texas will continue to vote him in because they think he has their back hahahahaha. If this doesn’t give them proof enough that he doesn’t give a rats ass about them
Camden Adams
Who really gives a shit about Texas anyways? Let all of the silicon valley billionaires that flocked their deal with the problem.
Cameron Williams
He chaperoned his daughter on her trip to a dangerous country and is already on his way back. Pretty typical of the antifamily left to hate a man for being a responsible father.
Nolan Evans
Sen. Ted Cruz claims he just ‘wanted to be a good dad’ by jetting to sunny Cancun as Texas shivers in the dark
NEWS Sen. Ted Cruz arrives back in Texas with armed police escort By Ebony Bowden
February 18, 2021 | 6:11pm
Sen. Ted Cruz touched down in Texas on Thursday afternoon with an armed police escort amid outrage over his 24-hour trip to Mexico during a catastrophic storm in the Lone Star State.
The Republican lawmaker could be seen chatting with two police officers who escorted him off his flight and through customs at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport in a 37-second clip obtained by CNN.
Brody Young
> "MY CHILDRUN MADE ME DO IT! I HAD NO CHOICE!!! Every single little thing about this asshole is coward, all the way down. You get what you deserve, Texass. You put this piece of shit traitor in the Senate, and then put him there again. You want a bailout from your latest self-inflicted disaster? Maybe ask Cuba for some gibsmedats.
Zachary Harris
Ted has placed 0.02 Cuban pesos into your buttcoin account. (You) should run out and get your meth fix before the next wave of ice hits.
Aiden Allen
His fucken wife went with him and his daughters you dumb fuckin cunt. Who needed chaperoning? His Harvard elitist ass was exhausted trying to downplay and ignore the damage he caused with tRump’s little coup and he wanted to take a little vacay during the pandemic.
Cut the boy some slack. Who cares if you don’t have heat or power? Let the man enjoy his vacation with his family. Keep wishing in one hand and shitting in the other.
Colton Rodriguez
Who cares if you don’t have heat or power OR CLEAN WATER ????
LION TED MO IMPORTANT ANY OF YOU TEXAS TRASH !!!!
Ryan Smith
Americans should be able to expect a few things from their politicians, one of which being keep the lights on and the water running
At least lying Teddy was scared enough of the unregulated gun nuts he encourages to exist to know he required police protection. But at least he'll be paying for that out of his own pock...oh wait. Pretty telling when you're scared of your own constituents because you were stupid enough to pull a Marie Antoinette stunt and then blame your own tween daughters for it. Even knuckledragging cavemen Texans aren't going to take kindly to that bullshit.
Gavin Lee
Marie Antoinette stunt and then blame your own tween daughters for HUMAN SHIELD
Ian Brooks
Rafael Edward Cruz (/kruːz/; born December 22, 1970) in CANADA is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States Senator for Texas since 2013.
Luke Rivera
Thu 18 | Night 72° 17% SSE 8 mph
Mostly cloudy. Low 72F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
Leo Bennett
Cancún, Mexico - February weather forecast and climate ...www.weather-atlas.com ... Cancún Climate data
In Cancún, Mexico, in February, the average high-temperature is 26.8°C (80.2°F), and the average low-temperature is 22.8°C (73°F).
Elijah Torres
Yeah I'd think twice about screwing your constituents so badly when you represent fucking Texas. You know the whole thing of Redneck dads being uber defensive of their daughters and shit like that? Imagine basically leaving them to freeze while you took a vacation to mexico.
You'd be lucky if you could get home before the inevitable armed angry mob can get there.
Camden Taylor
March 03, 2016 - 10:04 PM EST Trump digs at Cruz, calling him 'Lying Ted
Donald Trump bashed Ted Cruz as "Lying Ted" as Thursday night's GOP debate continued its fireworks.
Cruz and Rubio had ganged up on Trump, accusing him of waffling on his tough talk on immigration. They specifically noted reports that Trump made off-the-record comments to The New York Times about immigration and questioned whether those comments would undercut his rhetoric
LIL MARCO
William Thompson
Millions of Texans remained paralyzed by power and water outages after a winter storm and freezing temperatures that hampered efforts to restore full power.
Some 2.7 million Texas households were without heat on Wednesday and leaders warned of a domino effect on infrastructure as the lack of power cut off water supplies, strained the ability of hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients and isolated vulnerable communities cut off by frozen roads.
A Texas family lost their dad to Covid in January. Now they've lost their home to a fire while trying to stay warm.
Jose Campbell
Ted Cruz slammed for reportedly leaving pet poodle home alone during Cancun trip
Sen. Ted Cruz is in the doghouse with some critics who blasted him for reportedly leaving his pet pooch, Snowflake, at home amid freezing temps — as he and the rest of the family jetted off to Cancun, Mexico.
The Republican lawmaker has claimed in the wake of public outrage that he was merely escorting his pre-teen daughters on their trip with friends — noting that, like millions of his fellow Texans, his family had lost heat and water.
>Cruz’s wife was the one who had the idea to go on the trip after their house lost power >instead of taking that as a sign that he should do something to help, he went >blamed his kids when people gave him shit >left his dog in a house with no heat Just one more bad decision and I can get bingo! What will it be???
Grayson Kelly
Authorities suspect hypothermia after 11-year-old Texas boy dies in bed amid power outages
Authorities believe 11-year-old Christian Pavon died in his bed from hypothermia on Tuesday after his family's home lost power amid the unfolding winter disaster taking place in Texas.
Cristian Pavon was found unresponsive in his family's unheated mobile home in Conroe, Tex., according to the Washington Post.
"It was very cold and the stepdad said even the mom was shivering that night," Jaliza Yera, Cristian's aunt told a local ABC News station 13.
