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Cruz admits Cancun trip 'obviously a mistake' as he returns to find protestors outside his Texas home
Fox News ^ | 24 mins ago | Thomas Barrabi

Posted on 02/18/2021 5:00:52 PM PST by conservative98

on Foxnews.com.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz admitted Thursday that traveling to Cancun, Mexico as his constituents suffered in freezing homes amid power outages was "obviously a mistake."

The Republican spoke outside his Texas home as a sizable group of protesters chanted just yards away.

"It was obviously a mistake, and in hindsight, I wouldn't have done it," Cruz acknowledged. He reiterated his previous contention that he had gone in order to take his daughters to Mexico to get them out of the cold. "I was trying to be a dad," he said. "When you've got two girls who have been cold for two days and haven't had heat or power, and they're saying 'Look, we don't have school, why don't we go - let's get out of here . . . " The senator will join Sean Hannity Thursday night on Hannity at 9pm et.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2021icestorm; cancun; cruz; mindtheoptics; stopdigging; storm; tedcruz; texas; winterstorm
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To: gcparent
Oh please. He can be a leader and a role model or an as# hole. He chose the latter.

You're allowed a different opinion. Haters have been after him since 2015. But he still supported Trump....and tried to kill AOC. *sigh*

41 posted on 02/18/2021 5:26:53 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SamAdams76

Trump had to face about several thousand of these phony contrived outrages by the DNC press and hack liberal sources. He showed what you do. NEVER, EVER play their game. Punch back twice as hard. Troll them and mock them without mercy.


42 posted on 02/18/2021 5:28:28 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: HotKat

He is a member of a legislature body - the Senate.

As such he has no control of anything going on in Texas. The Executive and his staff of the state and municipalities have all the authority and responsibility. Other than it gives the loony left some ammunition, I see nothing wrong with getting out of town.


43 posted on 02/18/2021 5:28:56 PM PST by elpadre
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To: gcparent

I like Cruz. He is one of us and has a brilliant mind. He has been in Trump’s corner since the primary season ended.


44 posted on 02/18/2021 5:31:36 PM PST by elpadre
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To: djstex

Weather caused a statewide emergency. I recall landing in Dallas around mid nite on a business trip. One inch of snow they shut down the airport. We were all stranded. A taxi driver from PA got me to the hotel.one week no room service or maid service cause of one inch of snow.


45 posted on 02/18/2021 5:32:30 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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To: DJ MacWoW

So it’s haters fault that Cruz flew he and his family to Cancun while
3 million of his fellow Texans were left without power, water and probably food.
Freezing to death.
Cruz admits his mistake. Why can’t you CruzBots?


46 posted on 02/18/2021 5:32:57 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

I find most of the time republicans are tone deaf and shocked by dem behavior..You would think they would know by now,but no,,Shocked,shocked I tell you...


47 posted on 02/18/2021 5:33:27 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (When will the dems turn the US into Venezuela????)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

For God sake, if a guy screws up, admit it.

This was a very clear and easy decision to make.

None the less, it’s one more act of idiocy that this guy
has made.

We’re siding with the Communists?

Are all the citizens of Texas Communists? Who knew?


48 posted on 02/18/2021 5:34:59 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

Keep a running list of their skeletons in the closet then bring them out at the most inopportune times....


49 posted on 02/18/2021 5:36:46 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (When will the dems turn the US into Venezuela????)
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To: tennmountainman
So it’s haters fault that Cruz flew he and his family to Cancun while
3 million of his fellow Texans were left without power, water and probably food.
Freezing to death.
Cruz admits his mistake. Why can’t you CruzBots?

Why do you have to call names simply because we disagree?

What purpose would it have served for Cruz and his family to freeze with them? This is on state officials, Cruz is federal. Hate is a consuming emotion.

50 posted on 02/18/2021 5:37:37 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Hambone 1934

Exactly so! And it’s that inability to observe and assimilate that irks me. We’re out here accruing acid burns on our skins from the smarmy condescension of the GOPe, and this guy goes out and does this.


51 posted on 02/18/2021 5:37:38 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: RummyChick

His ego will not allow himself to hire a crisis team.
He is smarter than everybody or so he thinks.
Well, he thought wrong.


52 posted on 02/18/2021 5:37:48 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: conservative98

A musical bump for this thread   >>===>  "South Of The Border" - Frank Sinatra.

53 posted on 02/18/2021 5:37:49 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: RummyChick

I can;t believe Heidi Cruz was this stupid not to see the optics at work...Politicians wives have to be as smart as the spouse...When they aren’t it hurts the spouse..GOT THAT HEIDI


54 posted on 02/18/2021 5:38:51 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (When will the dems turn the US into Venezuela????)
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To: tennmountainman

so for those claiming Cruz couldnt do anything so it was okay to jet off to Cancun

https://www.rollcall.com/2021/02/18/ted-cruz-ignored-federal-quarterback-role-when-he-zipped-off-to-cancun/


55 posted on 02/18/2021 5:38:58 PM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: conservative98

It’s cold, let’s get out of here, doesn’t really square with the initial pre planned family vacation.

It’s always the cover-up.😂😂


56 posted on 02/18/2021 5:39:24 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: DoughtyOne

NEVER APOLOGIZE.

Our side is run by frightened little virtue signalers like you.

THAT’S why we lose. You lead the way.


57 posted on 02/18/2021 5:39:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The FBI used to go after communists. Now it is run by communists. The American Stasi.)
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To: elpadre

A brilliant mind...

That’s what you call acting as if you support the NeverTrump
movement for months leading into the 2016 election?

About six weeks before the election he began to see the
optics everyone else were seeing, but too late, and he
came off looking like a jackass then too.

That’s what you call a guy supporting a 400% increase in
H1-B visas, in that political climate when everyone was
against them?

That’s what you call support for that Pacific Trade deal,
supporting the legislation to pave the way for it to happen?

Just a couple of week ago Cruz tore into Trump big-time,
and you think he’s brilliant?

Oh may gosh...


58 posted on 02/18/2021 5:42:31 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

You left out the part where you called those of us who disagree with you
“Haters”. Last I checked that’s namecalling.
Cruz admitted his mistake. Why can’t you.


59 posted on 02/18/2021 5:44:03 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: conservative98

Bad optics, but what exactly does a senator have to do with state governance?


60 posted on 02/18/2021 5:44:19 PM PST by MarDav
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