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Texas constituents take to the internet to take down Sen. Ted Cruz's trip to Mexico

Bret Gibson
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Demonstrators stand in front of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s home demanding his resignation Thursday in Houston.
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Demonstrators stand in front of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s home demanding his resignation, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in Houston.
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Demonstrators stand in front of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s home demanding his resignation, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in Houston.

As the state of Texas was in a deep freeze, Sen. Ted Cruz was feeling the heat.

Cruz, who took his family this week to sunny Cancun, Mexico, for a vacation while citizens in the Lone Star State struggled during a deadly winter storm, was raked over the coals Thursday by some of his constituents.

The Republican searched for cameras to plead his case once he returned from his short-lived stay in paradise.

He admitted the trip was “a mistake, and in hindsight, I wouldn’t have done it. I was wanting to be a good dad.”

Cruz said he knew he had responsibilities and had intended to work remotely by phone and online. “But I needed to be here, and that’s why I came back,” he said.

Millions of Texans are without power, running water, or heat in the severe four-day storm, which has been linked to more than 20 deaths.

Cruz said he planned to “go home and keep working to get the grid reopened, to get power restored, to get the water back on.”

“A lot of Texans are hurting and this crisis is frustrating. It’s frustrating for millions of Texans. It shouldn’t happen,” he said.

But Texans weren’t buying it. And they let him hear it via the web.

Bret Gibson is a TribLive digital producer. A South Hills resident, he started working for the Trib in 1998. He can be reached at bgibson@triblive.com.

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