Sen. Ted Cruz touched down in Texas on Thursday afternoon with an armed police escort amid outrage over his 24-hour trip to Mexico during a catastrophic storm in the Lone Star State. In a statement released Thursday afternoon, Cruz said that he was only chaperoning his daughters, ages 12 and 10, on a flight and was headed back to the US. “This has been an infuriating week for Texans,” Cruz wrote. My staff and I are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas,” he added. Greg Abbott ordered 7 million people — approximately a quarter of the state’s population — to boil their water before drinking it.
