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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: DJ MacWoW

It’s not about the election.he acted like a soy boy.


21 posted on 02/18/2021 5:14:46 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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To: conservative98
Hey Ted, how about growing a pair of testicles and telling the dummycrat protesters to go EFF themselves, eh?

That's what a real man would do.

22 posted on 02/18/2021 5:15:46 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: definitelynotaliberal

I think he is content for the moment. He’s a good guy. We like him here in Texas.


23 posted on 02/18/2021 5:15:50 PM PST by Cottonpatch
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To: dragnet2

I remember that.


24 posted on 02/18/2021 5:16:39 PM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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To: RummyChick

The worst disaster to hit the state in a generation. Many are saying the damage has been worse than a hurricane.

Preplanned or not, this was not the time to go on vacation to a resort town in Mexico.

Even if you can’t do anything, as one of the state’s most important politicians, you have to at least look like you are concerned about what is going on.

Cruz is certainly one of the leaders for the 2024 nomination, but he has a history of making these kind of tone-deaf political mistakes.


25 posted on 02/18/2021 5:16:52 PM PST by Brookhaven
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To: conservative98

Nah, it was Heidi

It looks like it played out like this

It’s cold. The house is freezing. Let’s go to Cancun and have some fun with Goldman Sachs friends and neighbors.

Then he tries to blame it on the girls.

This would be fine if he wasn’t an elected official.

He can no longer blast the Dems for pulling the kind of stunt that he just pulled.


26 posted on 02/18/2021 5:18:08 PM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: SamAdams76

Reminds me of Nikki Haley who, while governor, skipped the state during huge flooding. Yet media made no fuss.


27 posted on 02/18/2021 5:19:23 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: gcparent
It’s not about the election.he acted like a soy boy.

What can he do about state issues? Texas' energy failure is on the governor and state officials, not federal.

28 posted on 02/18/2021 5:20:08 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SamAdams76

“Never apologize! Never!”

I’m not reading where he did apologize. He admits he made a mistake. But I don’t see where he is sorry for it. He was just trying to be a “good dad”.


29 posted on 02/18/2021 5:20:11 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
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To: RummyChick

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30 posted on 02/18/2021 5:20:15 PM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: RummyChick

He is done.


31 posted on 02/18/2021 5:21:03 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Cottonpatch

I don’t mind him either, truth be told. But to be so tone deaf, to not be able to anticipate what the left will do at any moment says something about his political acumen that is not positive.


32 posted on 02/18/2021 5:22:02 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: DJ MacWoW

“What can he do about state issues? Texas’ energy failure is on the governor and state officials, not federal.”

Be that as it may, Cruz himself said he was coming back from Cancun to “get to the bottom of things”.


33 posted on 02/18/2021 5:23:42 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
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To: conservative98

You’d think that ONE PERSON in his inner circle (family, friends, assistants, etc.) would have told him just HOW STUPID this trip was if he got caught.

My guess is that, given Cruz’s personality, many wanted to warn him, but were afraid to.


34 posted on 02/18/2021 5:24:00 PM PST by BobL
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

I dont know about that.

It sounds like this was a Heidi idea. He went along with it.

Then tried to blame the kids but that has blown up in his face.

Tried to claim he was always coming back today...that blew up in his face

What he does from here will tell the tale

His instincts are so bad he needs to hire a crisis manager to help him through this


35 posted on 02/18/2021 5:24:01 PM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Oh please. He can be a leader and a role model or an as# hole. He chose the latter.


36 posted on 02/18/2021 5:24:17 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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To: usconservative
Hey Ted, how about growing a pair of testicles and telling the dummycrat protesters to go EFF themselves, eh?

That's what a real man would do.

He has a pair. I remember Code Pink harassing him and he invited them up to debate him. He won.

37 posted on 02/18/2021 5:24:19 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: RummyChick

Yep.
For a very smart man and a skilled debater he makes some foolish mistakes. I would vote for him if I lived in Texas. But he will never be
President. No matter how much CruzBots wish it.


38 posted on 02/18/2021 5:24:23 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers.)
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To: RummyChick

39 posted on 02/18/2021 5:25:22 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98
He should of just said so what and leave at that.
Ted Cruz as many republicans always look so stupid by doing it and then backing it down.
Play a Pelosi and tell them to suck it.
Cruz knew better but then again he played right into the media's hands and made it so easy for them.
I like Cruz but dang what a dumb move being the leftists will kill him on this and of course the Rino dirtbags! tsk tsk.
BTW being from Texas and without water and have been in the dark could careless what politicians do any given day. The optics on Cruz look bad,but who cares is what I say. He just looks hypocritical after blasting others as he did himself. Way to go Cruz.............jeeze these pubbies need to get it together.
40 posted on 02/18/2021 5:25:59 PM PST by djstex (God Bless President Trump! Thank You!)
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