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UPDATE, 2/19/21, 8:30am ET: While Senator Ted Cruz initially claimed that he was merely escorting his young daughters to CancĂșn and immediately returning to Texas, leaked texts from a group chat involving wife Heidi Cruz tell a different story. Texts allegedly sent from Cruz to friends and neighbors, obtained by The New York Times, reveal an impromptu trip to escape their âFREEZINGâ house.
Cruz allegedly proposed a group trip to the Mexican vacation spot until Sunday, February 21 and raved about the Ritz-Carlton in CancĂșn, where she and her husband had stayed âmany times.â She mentioned the room rates this week ($309 a night) and noted that the resort had good security. Upon arriving in the United States on February 18, her husband gave a statement to Houstonâs KTRK that struck a different tone from earlier in the day, when he played the trip off as nothing but brief chaperone duties.
Senator Cruz said that the jaunt to Mexico was âobviously a mistakeâ and that he had begun having âsecond thoughtsâ while boarding the plane. His intent was to work remotely for a few days in CancĂșn, where the weather is sunny and temperatures are in the 80s. Meanwhile, in Texas his constituents remain without power and heat, freezing and hungry without the means to escape the unprecedented winter storm.
I was trying to be a dad, and all of us have made decisions â when youâve got two girls who have been cold for two days and havenât had heater power, and theyâre saying âHey, look we donât have school why donât we go, letâs get out of here.â I think there are a lot of parents that would be like, âLook, if I can do this great.â Thatâs what I wanted to do,â Cruz said. Cruz has two daughters: Caroline, 12, and Catherine, 10. âLook, it was obviously a mistake and in hindsight I wouldnât have done it.â
ORIGINAL: Once again, Meghan McCain didnât mince words when talking about Republicans she disagrees with on The View. Meghan went after Texas senator Ted Cruz, who was pictured at the airport heading to Mexico as a historic snowstorm in his state has left millions without power, heat, water, and food. At least 20 people have died amidst the traumatic freeze. She said the âopticsâ of him jetting off on a luxurious family vacation while his constituents suffer are horrifying.
âWhatâs not helping [the people of Texas] right now is that Senator Ted Cruz was seen on a flight with his family to CancĂșn,â Meghan said, adding that Cruz was on his way back to the United States. âTo literally flee your home state while people are freezing to death to go to CancĂșn? Itâs very Marie Antoinette, one of the worst optics I could come up with in an era where thereâs been a lot of bad political optics.â
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Cruzâs poorly-timed vacation caused a social media uproar after he was spotted at the airport on February 17, bags in hand. At the same time, three million Texans were stranded without electricity, food supplies dwindling, with no way to escape due to untreated icy roads. As he heads back to Texas, hundreds of thousands are still left in the dark. The state has now ordered seven million people â a quarter of the population â to boil their tap water before drinking due to damaged and frozen pipes. That is, those who actually have tap water again.
The senator released a statement about the situation on the morning of February 18: âWith school canceled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon.â He added that he had been âin constant communicationâ with state and local leaders during the brief trip.
Cruzâs old enemy, Seth Rogen, jumped on the senator after finding out about his Mexican getaway. âI think @SenTedCruz is desperately trying to rebrand from the âinspired a deadly insurrectionâ motherf**ker to the âleft my constituents to freeze to death so I could go to CancĂșnâ motherf**ker, but luckily he can be both. Heâs just that big a motherf**ker,â the actor tweeted on February 18.
I think @SenTedCruz is desperately trying to rebrand from the âinspired a deadly insurrectionâ motherfucker to the âleft my constituents to freeze to death so I could go to Cancunâ motherfucker, but luckily he can be both. Heâs just that big a motherfucker.
â Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) February 18, 2021
Itâs definitely not the first time that a member of Donald Trumpâs inner circle was compared to the beheaded French queen. Former First Lady Melania Trump was compared to Marie Antoinette in July 2020 for renovating the White House rose garden as death tolls rose amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. People said âoff with her headâ to Ivanka Trump after she complained about cancel culture that June.