Trips to Cancun aren’t done on the spur of the moment - I’d assume his wife and kids have been planning and anticipating this trip for a while now. Probably wouldn’t have been easy to cancel at the last minute due to freak weather conditions, but I agree - it’s a bad look.
Even if there had not been the storm, this would have been bad optics. *Very* bad optics - his opponents could and would use it against him in the next election - “Ted Cruz is jetting off in the middle of a pandemic!”
Cruz has some real problems with his optics.
The wife and kids can stay warm and comfy in Cancun—Ted needs to show support for Texans—in Texas.
It doesn’t matter if it was pre-planned or spur of the moment. In today’s world perception is nine-tenths the law now.
He would lose money on last-minute cancellation.
IMHO He is going to lose a lot going forward with Texans stuck in the frigid cold with no power/heat.
He would have looked a lot better if he was helping distribute blankets, food, water, etc.
What about the people in Texas who had plans of had plans for the last year? This is a punk move to tell his Texans FU!