

Cruz called them " hypocrites - complete and utter hypocrites." In early December, Cruz tweeted a video clip of a CNN segment about how Democratic officials had been caught not following their own guidelines when it came to Covid-19. Keep your family safe, and just stay home and hug your kids," he said. "I was speaking this weekend with a meteorologist expert who was saying the combination of these two storms, we could see up to 100 people lose their lives this week in Texas. People are trolling The Dallas Morning News over its report that the daughter of Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz disagrees with most of his views. "This storm is dangerous, and there's a second storm expected to hit this week, which will make things even worse, so if you can, stay home. In a radio interview with " The Joe Pags Show" on Monday, Cruz urged his fellow Texans to stay put. If he was in the midst of this and he was experiencing this, I think there would be a different attitude." Galveston Mayor Craig Brown suggested that Cruz was out of touch, telling MSNBC: "It's a response to me of someone who didn't have to experience this. #TedCruzRESIGN." It also sought to raise money for struggling Texans with a website called "." The name is a play on former President Donald Trump's "Lyin' Ted" nickname for Cruz when they ran against each other in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. The state Democratic Party called on Cruz to resign from Congress, tweeting, "Texans are dying and you're on a flight to Cancun. "They reached out to us, let us know that he was going to be arriving and could we assist, so upon his arrival to the Houston airport we monitored his movements," a police department spokesperson told NBC News.ĭemocrats were outraged, as millions of people across Texas have been struggling without power and heat and have suffered water system disruptions for several days in record low temperatures.
