While hundreds of thousands of Texans still don’t have heat, electricity or safe drinking water five days after a severe winter storm crippled the state’s power grid, it appears that Ted Cruz has hopped a flight with his family to Cancun.
The backlash to this has been so heated, however, that the Republican Senator is reportedly coming back home.
Images that appeared to show the Republican senator on a flight to Mexico went viral on Wednesday night, with many critics accusing him of leaving his constituents in the cold while he went on spring break.
Former MSNBC anchor David Schuster tweeted, “Cruz seems to believe there isn’t much for him to do in Texas for the millions of fellow Texans who remain without electricity/water and are literally freezing.” He shared a post featuring a picture of Cruz on an airplane, but it should be noted that it wasn’t clear when that picture was taken, or where Cruz was flying to at the time.
But Keith Edwards, a former advisor to Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff’s campaign, also tweeted Wednesday night that multiple people were messaging him over Twitter TWTR, -0.43% with photos confirming that Cruz was on their Wednesday flight out of Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport to Cancun.