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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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Sen. Ted Cruz, back in Texas, says it was "obviously a mistake" to go to Cancun.

You can hear protestors chanting "Resign!" in the background. pic.twitter.com/FwA6Dsg4fv— The Recount (@therecount) February 19, 2021




1 posted on 02/18/2021 5:00:52 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Ya think??????????

At least he admits it..unlike many here.


2 posted on 02/18/2021 5:03:27 PM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: conservative98
Never apologize! Never!

Now he'll probably have to resign.

Will Republicans every learn?

3 posted on 02/18/2021 5:03:38 PM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: conservative98

Always agree with the Communists when they attack one of ours.

It will serve you well.


4 posted on 02/18/2021 5:05:03 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: conservative98

Not a huge Cruz fan. Good that he admitted his mistake early in the process. Not sure what a US Senator can do except feel the pain of his constituents.


5 posted on 02/18/2021 5:06:56 PM PST by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: conservative98

Looks like the left found their distraction from frozen windmills and snow covered solar panels

Always blame the republican, even if all he did was vacation to Cancun.


6 posted on 02/18/2021 5:07:38 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: conservative98

How would his presence in Texas made anything better? He’s a Senator, not the Governor or any other state official. Should he have been out there supervising the restoration of electricity, the thawing of windmills? This is stupid. Yes it looks bad, but the whole thing is stupid.


7 posted on 02/18/2021 5:08:36 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: conservative98

He has a residence in Washington DC, that’s where he should have taken his kids.

Cancun, Mexico?


8 posted on 02/18/2021 5:09:11 PM PST by Brookhaven
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To: RummyChick

Cruz: Yes, I needed a tan, but not that badly.


9 posted on 02/18/2021 5:09:43 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: SamAdams76

He doesn’t have a choice. The text messages planning the trip have been released. Someone ratted out Heidi Cruz


10 posted on 02/18/2021 5:09:45 PM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: conservative98

11 posted on 02/18/2021 5:10:11 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: conservative98

So many CruzBots were defending Cruz on another thread.
Funny. Cruz is not defending himself, but admitting his mistake.
Shame the CruzBots were blind to the mistake too on the earlier thread.
It was a mistake. And many of us said so.
And so has Cruz.


12 posted on 02/18/2021 5:11:00 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: Brookhaven

Heidi Cruz was planning a get together with friends, neighbors, and family in Cancun.


13 posted on 02/18/2021 5:11:08 PM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: conservative98
And this, Rafael Edward Cruz, is why you will never be either President or a Justice on the Supreme Court. You make entirely too many mistakes.


14 posted on 02/18/2021 5:11:30 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: conservative98

He is my senator and I think it is fine if he flew his girls somewhere. That is not a standard I would hold him to. Now if he had electricity and water the whole time at his home because of who he is ,then that might be a problem.
I will vote for him again if he keeps true to our core values.


15 posted on 02/18/2021 5:11:30 PM PST by Cottonpatch
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To: HotKat

I agree, I have had plenty of issues with Ted Cruz, but his going on vacation isn’t one of them.


16 posted on 02/18/2021 5:11:31 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RummyChick

When you’ve got two girls who...say...’Look, we don’t have school, why don’t we go - let’s get out of here


First step in a crisis situation, never take the advice of 10 and 12 year olds.


17 posted on 02/18/2021 5:12:03 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

This isn’t about Cancun, it’s about objecting to the election. Cancun is convenient.


18 posted on 02/18/2021 5:12:52 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Brookhaven

Good point. Or he should have sent his wife and kids while he remained. That would have been the smart thing to do. We know where he would have been when the Titanic was sinking.


19 posted on 02/18/2021 5:13:27 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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To: tennmountainman

We said it sounded like a lie...and it was. It was not an overnight trip

Sara Cook
@saraecook

Senator Cruz confirms to reporters he’d planned to stay in Cancun through the weekend.

When the power went out at his home & school was canceled, his kids said “let’s go somewhere where it’s not so cold,” so they booked the trip to Cancun.

“It’s been a tough week,” he said.


20 posted on 02/18/2021 5:14:40 PM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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