Ted Cruz Reveals Wife Heidi Is ‘Pissed’ About Their Leaked Group Texts About Cancún On Podcast

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Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz brought up new details about the repercussions of his family trip to Cancún on the latest episode of the conservative podcast Ruthless. The Republican lawmaker, 50, discussed the trip that has brought on a waive of intense criticism, and disclose his wife’s reaction to the leaked texts that revealed more about their reason for the trip. The recently leaked text messages, obtained and published by The New York Times, highlighted exchanges that Cruz’s wife, Heidi, had with their neighbors. “I will say, Heidi is pretty p***ed at that,” Cruz said of his wife’s text messages being leaked.

The Senator also described how Heidi “actually was over to a neighbor’s house yesterday, sort of walking through” the exchange between herself and their neighbors. “We’ve got a number of Republicans who are neighbors, but we also have a number of Democrats,” he said. He continued on, revealing that there were some “folks on our street who put up Beto [O’Rourke] signs, which I thought was a little rude.”

“You know, I didn’t, like, hold a victory party on their front yards when we won,” he said, clearly annoyed. Cruz even went a step further in his comments, and seemingly directed his ire towards Democrats. “Here’s a suggestion: Just don’t be a**holes,” the senator said. “Yeah, like, just, you know, treat each other as human being, have some degree, some modicum of respect.”

The comments come nearly a week after photos of Cruz’s family boarding a flight at Houston’s George Bush International Airport to the glamorous destination surfaced. Initially, Cruz said that he was simply escorting his daughters — Caroline, 12, and Catherine, 10 — to Cancún and immediately returning to Texas to address the ongoing lack of heat, power, and necessary resources throughout the state, with millions of Texans affected.

“With school canceled for the week, our girls asked us to take a trip with friends,” the GOP Senator said at the time. He also stated he would be, “flying back this afternoon” when pressed about his return to the state on February 18. The leaked text messages, however, highlighted that the trip was seemingly meant as an escape from the Cruz family’s “FREEZING” home.

Cruz has since referred to the trip as “a mistake,” and that he did have “second thoughts” upon boarding the plane. But three days after returning from Mexico, Cruz was trolled by Twitter users as he handed out water to constituents, calling photos of the senator as examples of “fake compassion,” and a total “photo op.” Meanwhile, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was praised for her work, raising roughly $2 million for Texans affected by the major power outages across the state. In the time since, Cruz has continued to try and do damage control for his ongoing PR nightmare, mostly to his own detriment. But Cruz’s press tour discussing the trip has brought on further criticism, memes, and more.