Sen. Ted Cruz and his family flew to Cancun, Mexico, on Wednesday he confirmed in a statement to CNN, as a brutal winter storm ravaged his home state, leaving millions of residents without power or water or clean water.
The Texas Republican said in the statement that he flew down for a night because his daughters “asked to take a trip with friends.” “With school cancelled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends.
Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon,” he said in the statement, CNN reported. “My staff and I are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas.