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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: Brookhaven

I would have expected the Cruznadian to have taken the kids to Calgary.


161 posted on 02/18/2021 7:52:01 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: RummyChick

Kind of takes attention off murdering Cuomo, the demented squatter in the WH and Commie takeover. Why not confront Abbott? I know, he is not a possible presidential 2024 candidate. And no, I am not a Cruz worshipper.


162 posted on 02/18/2021 7:53:20 PM PST by Osagegirl
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To: gcparent

Sorry.....didn’t mean to interrupt your pity party.


163 posted on 02/18/2021 7:53:27 PM PST by Jrabbit
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To: DoughtyOne

What’s the other option: Gun grabber Beto?


164 posted on 02/18/2021 7:55:02 PM PST by Osagegirl
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To: Osagegirl

For president...

I would pick DeSantis over Ted.


165 posted on 02/18/2021 8:04:15 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I would too. I am not a Cruz worshipper but see so much worse going on from the other side it seems this was a diversion from what’s going on. Abbott needs to be questioned.


166 posted on 02/18/2021 8:07:06 PM PST by Osagegirl
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To: Osagegirl

Seems to me we skewer Leftist constantly here, as well we
should. Biden, Harris, Cuomo, all these idiot senators
and congressmen, we let them have it,.

I’m not sure if Abbott is at fault here.

I would need to know if he drove the policy to go green in
the state’s energy supply. He may have been rolled by the
Democrats in his state too, so he may deserve some rather
pointed criticism.

He may be fair game. I’m just not sure.


167 posted on 02/18/2021 8:15:10 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: conservative98

He’ll never be President if he doesn’t learn how to fight back. There are many ways he could have played offense here.


168 posted on 02/18/2021 8:30:18 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam, )
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To: conservative98

News flash Ted. Heidi is not an asset to you.

Goldman Sachs partners are not friends of the people and you sleep with one.

You choose wrongly.

You also need to clean up and get a haircut. You should be able to afford one. You look kinda Oily to me.


169 posted on 02/18/2021 8:40:42 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (I have a burning hatred of anyone who would vote for a demented, pedophile, crook and a commie whore)
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To: Rusty0604

Then Cruz must hate himself, as he admitted he made a mistake.


170 posted on 02/18/2021 8:54:43 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: DoughtyOne

“ These folks want to run Ted in 2024. Thus they will defend
him against anything he does and gets called on.”

Exactly.

Cruz will never be President though.
It’s a tough pill for CruzBots to swallow. So they deny.


171 posted on 02/18/2021 9:11:11 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

What part of Cruz’s statement did you miss?
He admitted he made a mistake.
Many of us posted the same thing on another thread
before Cruz admitted the same thing.
Do you think Ted is lying about making a mistake?
Or do you believe what he said.
Which one is it?


172 posted on 02/18/2021 9:16:33 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

He is done.

Doubt it. There is no one on this forum that wouldn’t have done the same thing if they had the chance. The optics are bad, but what the hell was he doing to fix this problem in the first place? All Cruz can do is throw debt onto the problem. This is all on Abbott. He runs the state and should have seen this coming. Cruz just represents.


173 posted on 02/18/2021 9:31:03 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (Sarcasm. It's my only natural defense against stupidity!)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian
"There is no one on this forum that wouldn’t have done the same thing if they had the chance."

I would bet my left testicle that you're wrong. This forum is riddled with active military, veterans, law enforcement, fire and medical first responders as well as people in critical infrastructure industries. There is little to no doubt in my mind that at any given time you could find somebody active on this forum who has cancelled a vacation, missed a family event, worked a planned day off, or lost leave because the duties and responsibilities of their work and their positions mandated they do so.

174 posted on 02/18/2021 9:39:48 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: tennmountainman

However, if he had stayed would his suffering lessened anyone elses? If John or Jackie down the block had a warm place to go does that mean he or she should stay freezing because it wouldn’t be fair to the neighbors? Yes the optics look bad but it’s an entirely human thing to do. That said, I haven’t followed this whole thing this thread is first I heard anything about Cruz and Bahamas.


175 posted on 02/18/2021 9:52:11 PM PST by kelly4c
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To: tennmountainman

That’s my take as well.


176 posted on 02/18/2021 10:03:42 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: RummyChick

Only one comment neede.

“YOU DUMBASS”!


177 posted on 02/18/2021 10:08:35 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: rollo tomasi

And he can’t do that from a phone or email or zoom from Cancun at least as easily as his house in Texas?


178 posted on 02/19/2021 5:02:35 AM PST by rb22982 ( )
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To: rb22982

Perception. Come on man.


179 posted on 02/19/2021 6:25:22 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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To: kelly4c

Cancun is not in the Bahamas.


180 posted on 02/19/2021 6:26:14 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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