Texas Senator Ted Cruz sparked outrage after he was spotted heading to Cancun while his home state grappled with extreme temperatures and an escalating crisis. Cruz has returned to Houston and says he had been dropping off his daughters.
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Sen. Ted Cruz Facing Backlash After Cancun Trip Amid Texas Crisis | NBC Nightly News
As far as I’m concerned, Ted Cruz didn’t ever have to come back.
Resigned Cruz Wake up TEXAS
Southern States who have gone without electricity for three days need to be thinking ahead. When the electric comes on and the melting begins, that is not a good mix. As an Idaho/Montana gal, who thinks of herself as a ‘survivor’, these are my thoughts.
Turn your electricity off at the main breaker inside your house. Same with the gas, same with the water.
Figure out a network of neighbors who can find or create higher ground to build a good sized wood fire, and a section for coals to cook the meat that will soon be thawing and rotting in your freezers. Pots for soups, etc. If no one else wants to play, build your own fire. Be creative, this is survival.
If there is snow on the ground, put the kids to making snow balls double the size of a bowling ball and set them close around the places where water might enter your home. Once the thaw comes, they will still hold their form for a while and prevent some bad or worse flood outcomes.
Two brains didn’t seem to help. Both parents thought this was a good idea? I think the kids needed to be in a safe and warm place but Ted? Hmm
The Penguin is back
To drop his kids lol 😂 who drops there kids to another country lol 😂
All this while the main stream media can ignore Cuomo killing thousands of elderly.. What can Cruz do in Texas that he can’t do from Cancun.. The State and its emergency is the Governors responsibility not Cruz’s
These politicians are just hilarious
The Sun Tan Kid.
Climate Denying Ted — absconds with the life boat as he abandons ship; and the rest of us.
That man is so pitiful sorry just like his master he don’t care about nobody but his self he’s not for the people
Ted Cruz u r so cruel leaving Texas let peoples going die then you’re enjoy with your life . how’s your leadership leading TEXAS peoples , we’re voting for you become Sen ? you call someone else hypocrite . so you’re same level like them too , just cover up for yourself feel poor for it OMG …. God Bless USA
We are shocked, but is anyone truly surprised?
Ted, Ted, Ted, once AGAIN loses any shot of Presidential run. Seriously, who’s the parent?
Ted Cruz is a Canadian born in Calgary, Alberta he can’t legally run to be your President.
Terrible terrible terrible
He punched his ticket out the door his election is in 2 years bye bye
Incredible I guess he never went to the military we lead by example…..he missed that 1
WTF = Wey, Tengo Frio…
The really bad thing about turd going to Mexico is that he comes back to Texas.
How low can a person be…
He is”TRASH”~
He is a Public Servant! That is the job of a politician! Other politicians were on the job helping its citizens! All this proves is what the Republicans think of the Citizens of the United States of America!
Note: a lot of those rioters, neglected to complain about how that it was the Republicans who wanted to only give $600.00 to us struggling citizens during this pandemic!!🤨 Now that I think about it. Maybe that’s why those same rioters placed explosive devices at both Republican and Democrat party offices during the riot! 😱 The people should very much be fed up by now! Let’s just hope the citizens do not have an attention span of a gnat and forget when it’s the Midterm elections! 🤔
Trump said his wife looked like Max Schmeling and Ted shrugged it off. It takes a man to do that.
I really liked Ted Cruz! But! That trip was so wrong! Shame on you Ted Cruz!!
But what he really wants to say is ” I’m rich’biach” so I go to Cancun while the Peons r freezing
Shameful. One day, his children and grandchildren will look back and realize what a sniveling family they descend from. Pathetic trash.
He’s a republican from Texass he’ll be ok. Lmbao 🤣
Maybe his wife doesn’t know where MEXICO is.
Never care
What a joke usa politics
Time to turn Texas blue… Texafornia 🇺🇸
Cry cry cry. Didn’t know adults needed to be told how to take care of themselves to survive.
😂😂😂🤣🤣😡🤬 GOT CAUGHT
Republicians Hannity didn’t tell you guy’s that AOC that he always talks bad about raised 2 million dollars for Texans to help you guy’s out but Hannity didn’t tell you that fact ✅ check it and he your Rep Cruz is on a trip now who is helping you I think not AOC give her Kudos Hannity and Fox Executives let’s be fair 🤔🤔🧐
Nice one
Lovely news
Beautiful channel lovely
Are you feeling Great yet Texas? What’s the old saying? “The definition is insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?” Keep voting for Republicans that don’t care if you life or die.
Should have contained that immigrant Cruz.
Well said Rafael! Must be nice to travel! I can’t even go to freaking Montreal which is even colder lol But since America is awful and nearly half a million dead scared everyone else in the world
That’s what you get “Texans” for voting for that super manly and totally not cowardly person over Beto
Cruz is a greedy, deceitful example of what is the GOP. Citizens backing this smarmy oppressor undermine their own health & future. Ignorance is a choice; break the narrative!
liar
Coward
What a dirtbag. Maybe this will open some eyes in Texas.
He is building the wall from the other side.
Who cares he went on a vacation with his kids. What is the big deal? Like he as one man could do much more than what was already being done? It’s just a finger pointing tactic, seriously? He should resign? If I had the means I would take a vacation, get over it ppl.
Do what I say not what I do🤷♀️ in the United States of Illusions
Ted cruz is cold is ice🎤🎵. Then his dog looking out the window if he could talk. Don’t leave me this way🎶🎤😃✈⛲
Liar
I mean, should i care? They voted for him
This man is repossive
This man is terrible, he is beyond belief Continuously Americans kept on voting for these despicable men! here we go again
Backlash until the weather break warm Then the Rebulican will push it under the rug Just like a mass shooting at schools watch
Ju got some splainin to do! When all else fails just go golfing or go to Cancun.
Didn’t you lot voted for Ted Cruz?
Cancun Cruz should Resign!
Cruz showed his true colors. RESIGN.
TY AOC of NY and O’Rourke for your Texan relief efforts.
Cruz’s entire family lacks the necessary compassion of an elected official
Blames his children??
Beg for federal aid and then step aside to the democrats fix it. Typical conservatives
Ted is in vacation so leave him alone. Why won’t nbc report on the Coimo scandel that even AOC and left wing pundit Alec Baldwin agrees should be investigated. NBC has their priorities skewed
Like so many before have discovered you need to protect your family. When your country fails to provide the basic services, you must cross the Mexican border.
These spineless backstabbers keep throwing each other under the bus. Calling each other names, calling each others’ wives ugly, etc… Let’s hope their kids grow up to see them for the super flawed humans they were/are.
Cruz doesn’t care about anyone in Texas he’s a chicken
How about saying TEXANS are calling on CRUZ to resign INSTEAD of making this partisan by claiming it is “democrats”. It’s this type of slanted reporting that further divides the people and is narrow focused & short—sighted
You know I would have stayed in Texas to look after the old and the young if I were a senators and it would have been a privilege. I mean ted Cruz couldn’t even pretend to care about Texans being the senator of that huge state. Wow how COCKY AND CONFIDENT was he when making all the climate change AND OTHER WAR speeches in the senate. Well it’s come to bite him up his backside. SERVE HIM RIGHT.
He deflecting blame he should be removed from power, hope he loses support and votes for this.
IS HE BLAMING IT ON HIS DAUGHTERS??????? WHAT A SLIME Q SLIMEDOG
Resign, resign, resign!
He needs to be fired.
Resign, resign, resign.
age 10 and 12 are old enough to understand why they shouldn’t go vacation at that time,.
Resign
Cruz is a climate change denier.
Cruz caught in Cancun implementing Biden’s new Immigration Policy (bring illegals to US to wait for their court date, vaccine, free college and citizenship). Must be at least a family of 4 in that suitcase. LOL
Um ? Mr Cruz has dual citizenship.. Texican
It gets funnier too, just today AOC was caught fund raising almost 4 million to Texas for the disaster relief
Newsflash: no he’s not. Johnathon Sullivan dc rioter is claiming Netflix will do a documentary on him inciting the riots, how did nbc miss this?
Oh.. maybe your kids wanna go to Disneyland… away you go!! You looked very cozy..short sleeve shirt in airport…drinks and food on the plane.. maybe your kids will ask you to jog on the freeway!! Hey let us know the one.. I would say go back to Canada..but they don’t deserve that.. maybe Trumppy will take you in… doubt that
The people in Texas is going to have to vote this man out of office. They are the only ones who can remove him office. All these trumpsters and Qanon that are serving in our federal and state government, we’ll have to get out and vote them out of office. government
Ted Cruz is a coward.
Senators have six year terms. Cruz is into year two….four years to go so he doesn’t give a rat’s @@@ about what people think….no doubt in four years Texans will yet again vote this slimy person back into office.
Why is no one blaming our seated president for not sending federal disaster relief?
TC IS A TWO FACES HE IS NOT WELCOMED TO MEXICO, HE ALWAYS ATACK MEXICO,WTF DID HE GOES THERE? SHAME ON THIS GUY…
INSTEAD OF HELPING THE POOR FOLKS SUFFERING IN TEXAS HE DUMPED EM!!
and he’s still the best politician you’ve got in Texas 😂
I think your news agencies are making this a scene to discredit
A True Championship Dirtbag !
Book your Cancun Mexico getaway at 202-224-5922 and tell them the Texas Senator Ted Cruz sent you.
this is texas… this is senator of texas, a man who visited mexico in the middle of pandemic.
The reason why this is Is happening in Texas is due to the deregulation of gas in the fossil fuel industry in the 1990s. This results from the big oil and alike working with the GOP for deregulation, and now Texans are feeling the brunt of it. And Ted Cruz, A despotic senator, would betray his own country for his loyalty to Trump, the master despotic
Repulsive as always.
They shouldn’t have included his kids in the photos though
Ted Cruz is a Canadian born in Calgary, Alberta. If you Yankees don’t like it DEPORT him.
Ted Cruz sunbathing, swimming & drinking Tequila with friends in Cancun while his constituents are dying of Hypothermia!!!This is the public servant that you voted to make Texas Great Again.
Wake up! Do not be deceived by “heartwarming” baloney or clever manipulations! The “Federal” Reserve just gifted $2 TRILLION to its banksters buy their uncollectible, mortgage-backed bonds in 2019 to 2020, when they knew that if the banksters attempted to sell such bonds, they would have had to sell them at ludicrously low prices: particularly, because real estate has been in a huge bubble for years and this pandemic has prevented so many businesses from opening, resulted in their insolvency and defaults on their rents and mortgages, and will result in many, many commercial landlords also being in default on their mortgage-backed bonds given to the banksters.
Will anyone give even a fraction of such sums to the poor in Texas or those ordinary Americans who now face huge bills to repair their burst pipes or to buy water to give to their families because the water supply became contaminated? NEVER. There will be federal loans, which the Texas poor and middle class will have to pay for the next decade(s.) They will not get bailouts, because they do not control the USA, like the banksters control it.
(The deceptively named “Federal” Reserve is actually owned by the ultra-rich who own banks that own the shares in the district banks of the “Fed.” Those ultra-rich (the “banksters”) always cause the “Fed” to pretend to act in the best interests of all Americans, while it actually keeps funneling TRILLIONS in funds to those banksters, who own it and control the US media as reported in Forbes Magazine, which reported that 15 billionaires own US media. See “Audit Of The Federal Reserve Reveals $16 Trillion In Secret Bailouts” in countercurrents d o t o r g.)
With this covid pandemic, I also must point out to all minorities but particularly to African-Americans, that you are being fooled by those in power with nonsense, like the tv shows “American Gods,” into believing that things are changing. They are not, because those in power just want you to keep voting for them even though they secretly despise you and keep giving them power while you get nothing back, have to attend lousy schools, get inadequate nutrition from companies, like fast food companies that know that their food is hurting you, not qualify for significant sums in student loans, then not be able to get a decent job, and if you got any student loans, have to pay them for the rest of your life, because they are not dischargeable in bankruptcy anymore.
Vote for your own people of your own race, poverty level, ethnic group, and religion, who will actually care about you and act in your own best interests and not for the corrupt “elites” who never represented your interests and got the $2 TRILLION in bailouts these last two years or $29 TRILLION during the last bailouts. See “Bernanke’s Obfuscation Continues: The Fed’s $29 Trillion Bail-Out Of Wall Street” in Huffingtonpost. See “The Fed’s $29 TRILLION bailout of Wall Street” in multiplier effects d o t o r g. Take it from a fellow minority member.
However, to all of you poor whites, wake up! You have also been getting the shaft for decades, albeit those who have been wielding it may have sometimes been of your own racial group. Support people who might care about you, because they come from the same position and poverty level and will return to it after they leave office. Not everyone is a crook. The banksters want you to give up, assume everyone is a crook, and just vote for and accept their crooks.
Kool
TED CRUZ DOESN’TT KNOW HIS JOB IS TO SERVED AMERICAN PEOPLE BUT HE RUN AWAY BECAUSE HIS ARROGANT DON’T LET HIM TO THINK!!!!!
Ridiculos los de este canal porque “Satanizan a este gran hombre””
Cancun Cruz a product of a political asylum from Cuba, now destroying democracy of the country who adopted his family roots. Shameless self serving insurrectionist in disguise as an american.