The Texas Democratic Party is calling on Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to resign or be expelled from office after the Republican lawmaker flew to Cancun, Mexico, for a family vacation in the middle of a deadly winter storm that has left millions of Texans without water and electricity.
In a statement issued Thursday, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa called the senator’s trip to Cancun “deeply disturbing and disappointing.”
He further described Cruz as “an enemy to our democracy” for challenging the certification of the Electoral College vote before and after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and “an enemy to our state” for “jetting off to Mexico while Texans remain dying in the cold.”
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