Sen Ted Cruz flew to Cancun, Mexico, with his family today as Texas dealt with a winter season tornado that since Thursday still has actually left 500,000 without power, Fox News has actually validated.
Photographs of Cruz, R-Texas, at a flight terminal started flowing on social networks late Wednesday, with individuals declaring that the legislator had actually left the state for Cancun amid a significantcrisis A Republican source informed Fox News that the claims Cruz was taking a trip to the Mexican city hold true.
“The photos speak for themselves,” the source claimed.
Sen Ted Cruz R-Texas, talks to the media throughout the impeachment test of President Donald Trump, Thursday,Jan 23, 2020, onCapitol Hill in Washington (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana).
( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Temperatures today have actually dived to harmful document lows in the Lone Star State as well as overloaded power grids, leaving millions withoutpower At the very least 30 individuals have actually passed away throughout the UNITED STATE as an outcome of the severe wintertime climate, according to theAssociated Press
Cruz recognized just how significant the crisis is in a tweet Tuesday, stating, “A blizzard strikes Texas & our state shuts down. Not good.” Cruz additionally Thursday admired a furnishings shopkeeper that, according to FOX 26 in Houston, permitted 1,000 individuals in his shop amid the power failures.
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Cruz’s workplace did not react to several ask for talk about Thursday early morning.
The Associated Press added to this record.