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Billboards calling for his resignation stood along Texas highways earlier in the month.Įven the state Republican Party chair declined to come to Cruz's defence on Thursday. More recently, he emerged as a leader in former President Donald Trump's push to overturn the results of the November election. He was already one of the most villainized Republicans in Congress, having created adversaries across the political spectrum in a career defined by far-right policies and fights with the establishment. The fierce political backlash comes as Cruz eyes a second presidential run in 2024. "It was obviously a mistake, and in hindsight, I wouldn't have done it," he said. "I didn't want all the screaming and yelling about this trip to distract even one moment from the real issues that I think Texans care about, which is keeping all of our families safe," Cruz said. He said he had originally been scheduled to stay in Mexico through the weekend. because he realized he needed to be in Texas. "We want our power back, our water on, and our homes warm."Ĭruz told reporters Thursday night that he returned to the U.S. "My staff and I are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas," he continued. "Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon," Cruz wrote. The trip drew criticism from leaders in both parties and was seen as potentially damaging to his future political ambitions.Ĭruz said in an earlier statement Thursday that he accompanied his family to Cancun a day earlier after his daughters asked to go on a trip with friends, given that school was cancelled for the week. The Associated Press and other media outlets reported that he had travelled out of the country with his family as hundreds of thousands of Texans were still grappling with the fallout of a winter storm that crippled the state's power grid.

"In hindsight, I wouldn't have done it," he told reporters. The Republican senator said he began second-guessing the trip since the moment he first got on the plane Wednesday. Ted Cruz said his family vacation to Mexico was "obviously a mistake" as he returned stateside Thursday following an uproar over his disappearance during a deadly winter storm. Ted explained he was just along for the ride and had always planned to come right back. Cruz explained that he was simply accompanying his two young daughters down to Mexico where they were going to stay with school friends and parents. Cruz and his team of people that work with Ted Cruz pretended not to know anything was happening in the news, ignoring calls from every media outlet on the planet, while the world’s least popular political official attempted to slither back into the country. Then Cruz put out a statement blaming his children for wanting to go to Mexico because Texas schools had been canceled. Sen. Ted Cruz spent the first few days doing their performative best to distract the country and their constituents from the seriousness of their failures as government officials. And then images of Ted Cruz, reportedly on a plane, headed to Cancún, Mexico circulated around the internet. Meanwhile, millions of Texans were left without power, and politicians who didn’t seem particularly interested in doing anything but pointing fingers outside at everyone, while seemingly doing next to nothing productive to stop this disaster from claiming more lives. Then conservative officials, their party, and their media propaganda machines attempted to place blame for this failure on renewable energy-which makes up less than 20 percent of the grid. A winter storm took advantage of an archaic fossil fuel-soaked energy grid.

Celebrities, they're just like you and me!ĭecades of inaction by corrupt politicians, groveling at the oily feet of the fossil fuel industry led to a natural disaster-turned epic disaster in Texas.