(GNB Desk): Senator Ted Cruz returned to Texas from Cancun on Thursday after he was spotted boarding a plane to Mexico with his family.
In a statement, the senator said that he accompanied his daughters on the trip while school was 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,” Cruz said.
Cruz added that he and his team are in constant communication with state and local leaders to figure out why the winter storm led to widespread power outages and boil-water advisories.
The story comes amid the ongoing crisis in Texas, where millions were left without power in freezing temperatures due to a winter storm.
The Texas Democratic Party is calling on Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to resign or be expelled from office after the Republican lawmaker flew to Cancun, Mexico, for a family vacation in the middle of a deadly winter storm that has left millions of Texans without water and electricity.
In a statement issued Thursday, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa called the senator’s trip to Cancun “deeply disturbing and disappointing.”
He further described Cruz as “an enemy to our democracy” for challenging the certification of the Electoral College vote before and after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and as “an enemy to our state” for “jetting off to Mexico while Texans remain dying in the cold.”
One of the images was posted by former MSNBC anchor David Shuster, who criticized the senator’s decision to take his family on a vacation while many of his constituents have to deal with the fallout of the winter storm.
“Cruz seems to believe there isn’t much for him to do in Texas for the millions of fellow Texans who remain without electricity/water and are literally freezing,” Shuster wrote in a tweet.
Shuster’s tweet went viral, garnering nearly 50,000 retweets and more than 70,000 likes as of 1 p.m. ET on Thursday.
Others who criticized the senator for his actions included Democratic state Rep. Gene Wu and actress and activist Alyssa Milano.
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