Not good.”įellow travelers seemed to out his insanely tone-deaf trip on Wednesday night by posting snaps of him inside an airport and then, later, on a plane. In his final tweet before the flight, Cruz wrote, “A blizzard strikes Texas & our state shuts down. At least 1o people have died and millions have been left cold and in the dark. The beach vacation came during an ongoing catastrophe in his home state-freezing weather has caused days of mass power failures, which, in turn, have caused widespread food shortages and water outages. If Ted Cruz Had Any Shame He’d Resign and Stay in Cancun Upon his arrival at the terminal, we monitored his movement,” the department said in a statement on Thursday morning. “His staff requested assistance upon the Senator’s arrival at the airport. On Thursday afternoon, Cruz was spotted arriving back in Houston, escorted by two law enforcement officers.Ĭruz’s staff had asked the Houston Police Department-which has been busy dealing with the deadly storm-to assist Cruz when he arrived at George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Wednesday for his departing flight. “Yesterday my daughters asked if they could take a trip with some friends and Heidi and I agreed, so I flew down with them last night, dropped them off here, and now I’m headed back to Texas and back to continuing to work to try to get the power on,” he said, adding that his family was among those without heat and power. In brief comments to a Telemundo reporter at Cancun airport, Cruz again suggested he was only “dropping off” his daughters. Texts from his wife to a group of friends seemed to show the family planned for the trip to last till Sunday. But he seemed to suggest he’d always planned to return home after one night, contrary to reports he was intending to stay in Mexico with his wife, Heidi, and two daughters until Saturday. My team and I will continue to use all our resources to keep Texans informed and safe.”Ĭruz acknowledged it had been an “infuriating week” for millions of Texans who were without power, or dangerously close to running out of food and water. “We want our power back, our water on, and our homes warm. “My staff and I are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas,” he said.
Follow and for the latest conditions.“It was not my intention for to be understood as… somehow diminishing the suffering and hardship other Texans had experienced,” he said late Thursday.Įarlier Thursday, as outrage over his getaway grew, he sought to defuse the situation with similar statements. “Stay inside, warm, and off the roads if possible. Please follow all local warnings,” Cruz wrote. “Most Texans woke up to freezing rain and sleet that will continue throughout the day.
Instead, he hopped over to his “Senator Ted Cruz” handle, where he tried to tweet like a concerned lawmaker. He tweeted about the current storm that has left at least 200,000 Texans without power, yet Ted notably chose not to do so on the main “Ted Cruz” account that sees most of his Twitter participation. Should he ignore storms and face further accusations of not caring about the fine residents of Texas, or should he tweet about them and risk another roasting? That aborted trip to Cancun will always haunt him, and in the end, Ted kind-of took the coward’s way out. If you try to leap into his mind, though - scary, I know - you can guess the dilemma. His pet poodle even looked dejected to be left behind, and it remains unlikely that Ted will ever be able to live this down. Nearly two years ago, he made the mind-crushing decision to flee to sunny Cancun during a devastating ice storm while his constituents froze. Ted Cruz can’t read the room, but when it comes to winter storms, he can’t win, either.
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