Senator Ted Cruz accused of traveling to Cancun as property condition of Texas froze

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On Thursday morning, Fox News verified Cruz took a excursion to Cancun, saying “a Republican resource explained to Fox Information that the allegations Cruz was touring to the Mexican city are genuine.”

“The pictures discuss for by themselves,” the supply instructed Fox News.

The Affiliated Push also confirmed the Cancun excursion, reporting Cruz “went with his relatives for a very long-planned excursion to Cancun and was envisioned to return instantly, in accordance to a supply with direct expertise of the predicament who spoke on the issue of anonymity to share non-public discussions.”

According to ABC News’ verification producer Erin Calabrese, Cruz contacted Houston Police and asked for aid upon his arrival at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Wednesday.

At the time Cruz was allegedly awaiting his flight to Mexico, much more than 1.3 million CenterPoint buyers in Houston were being without energy. The temperatures in Cancun are in the 80s Thursday in Cancun, but expected to dip back again into the 20s in Houston, which has sparked outrage as people give Cruz new nicknames like “Fled” Cruz” and “Flyin’ Ted” – a takeoff on Donald Trump’s previous nickname for the Senator “Lyin’ Ted.”

Twitter consumer Juan Gomez shared the initially picture of Cruz with his baggage at a United Airlines gate, incorporating “Effectively Senator Cruz is flying to Cancun while millions of Texans do not have energy #Priorities #ThanksforNothingSenator.”

Former MSNBC anchor David Shuster tweeted that he verified Cruz “and his household flew to Cancun tonight for a few days at a resort they have visited just before.” His tweet involved a image of Cruz inside of a airplane. It really is unclear how Shuster confirmed the story.

Keith Edwards – who was an advisor to Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff and labored with the Lincoln Task, an anti-Trump group – tweeted other photographs of Cruz at the airport. He reported the pics had been sent to him by passengers on the very same flight as Cruz.

Beto O’Rourke, who shed the Senate race to Cruz in 2018, appeared on MSNBC on Wednesday evening and took a shot at Cruz, when talking about holding politicians accountable for their steps, like “the junior Senator from the condition of Texas, who I have an understanding of is vacationing in Cancun suitable now when people today are virtually freezing to loss of life in the point out that he was elected to symbolize and provide.”

Texas Point out Rep. Gene Wu, a Houston Democrat, tweeted: “Guess which US Senator from Texas flew to Cancun though the point out was freezing to death and possessing to boil h2o?”