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. And Barron Trump was also the subject of unsavory speculation during his father’s tenure as president.Texas Sen. Sadly, Caroline Cruz is just the latest teenager to fall foul of slavering creeps keeping tabs on the children of public figures under the guise of “public interest journalism.” Claudia Conway, daughter of Kellyanne and George, was fourteen when internet sleuths discovered her TikTok account and turned her into a (legal) minor celebrity. LGBTQNation tells us that her “TikTok account was made private after the video went viral.”Ĭockburn remembers a soberer cultural moment, when amplifying information about a teenager’s sexual preferences to millions of people would have have been dubbed not “news” but “cyberbullying.” “I haven’t told him yet, I’m kind of nervous about it tbh but I don’t think he would be mad about it,” the teen replies.Ĭruz’s daughter was apparently the subject of a great deal of attention on TikTok and Twitter over Christmas break. LGBTQNation also describes a TikTok video in which Cruz’s daughter discusses whether she’s told her father about her sexuality. Now is the time for a strong social conservatismĪ teenager rebelling against her parents? Stop the presses!.
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