Texas Senator Ted Cruz has not finished biting his fingers. Wednesday February 17, while the US state of Texas was buried in snow, struck by polar temperatures and deprived of electricity, the elected ultra-conservative, former rival of Donald Trump in the race for the White House in 2016, left spend a few days of family vacation in Cancun, the resort town of Yucatan, Mexico. The plane had not yet taken off from Houston when the photo of Mr. Cruz, pulling his wheeled suitcase to the boarding counter, was circulating on social media. By the time we got to the tropics, the affair was called “CancunGate”.
Ted Cruz, whose left is already demanding the resignation for having disputed the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory even though an insurrectionist mob had invaded the Capitol on January 6 in Washington, took the return plane the next day. for Texas. He justified himself by explaining that he had only done his duty to ” a good family’s father “ driving his daughters, deprived of school and heating, to the Ritz-Carlton in Cancun. The explanation did not convince anyone, especially since his initial reservation was set for Saturday.
“I had never seen a politician blaming his 10 and 12 year old daughters for errors in judgment”, commented Fox News political reporter Chris Wallace. On Friday, a few dozen Democrats demonstrated outside the senator’s – and presidential – home in Houston, outraged that the “Traitor” from January 6 to ” abandoned “ its administered to cold and food shortage.
The thermometer has dropped to -18 degrees
Like Ted Cruz, Texas has been caught up in the weather. The second most populous state in the country (30 million inhabitants), which prides itself on a liberal model of “Low taxes low services” (“Few taxes, few services”) favorable to business, has been facing for nearly a week a cold wave which has taken on the proportions of a humanitarian crisis. “People burn furniture for heat; they melt the snow to feed the flush; they brave carbon monoxide poisoning to heat their children, lamented the young elected Democrat James Talarico. If Texas was a country it would be a failed state (failed state) ”.
The arctic blizzard hit Texas on Sunday February 14. The next day, temperatures broke historic records. In Dallas, where it is usually 15 degrees in February, the thermometer has dropped to -18 degrees, an unprecedented event since 1909. In San Antonio, in the south of the state, it was colder than in Alaska . Scenes from the start of skiing on the highway gave way to apocalyptic imagery, with the cold cascading consequences.
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