CST United Airlines flight from George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston to Cancun. The plane in question appears to have been the 4.45 p.m. Edwards did not share the messages he said he'd received but maintained the claim about Cruz was accurate.

'Two people in my DMs sent photos of Ted on their flight today from Cancun,' he wrote. He also said passengers on the flight had sent him pictures proving it. 'I now have multiple people DMing me, confirming he was on their flight to Cancun today,' Edwards tweeted late on Wednesday.

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Around 7 million Texans are also being asked to boil their water before use as over 300 water plants remain without power and unable to treat the water supply. The Texas senator went on to confirm that he and his staff are in 'constant communication with state and local leaders' in order to understand what happened to cause the state's energy crisis that left millions without power and water. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon,' Cruz said. 'With school cancelled for the rest of the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends. In a statement released Thursday afternoon, hours after the controversy began, Cruz explained that he and his family left Texas to fly to Cancun at the request of his daughters. The idea that Cruz and his family had flown to Mexico soon spread on Twitter. Photos circulating on social media overnight appeared to show the senator at an airport and on an airplane. Just weeks before the Cruz trip, parents were warned about traveling amid the pandemic by the school in an email, Politico noted.Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has been accused of traveling to Cancun, Mexico, amid the ongoing crisis in Texas, where millions have been left without power or heat in freezing temperatures.

The school mandates that any students who travel internationally must undergo a 7 to 10 day quarantine upon their return and the school has no option for online instruction. Ted Cruz at the Cancun International Airport before boarding his plane back to storm-ravaged Texas. So many parents were heatedly commenting about the trip on the Facebook page for the exclusive $31,820-a year school that administrators closed the site to comments, Politico said. By Thursday, heвЂ™d вЂfessed up that it was вЂњobviously a mistake.вЂќ

Still more blowback came when he blamed the trip on the girls, ages 10 and 12, who he said had asked to take the jaunt. JohnвЂ™s School were reported by Politico - and show just the latest cost of the senatorвЂ™s tone-deaf trip to the Mexican resort town, taken while millions of his constituents suffered through cold, power outages and water shortages.Д¬ruz has faced blowback for the trip from all angles, including HoustonвЂ™s police chief and former New Jersey Gov. The strict pandemic-mandated rules at HoustonвЂ™s elite St. Ted CruzвЂ™s two daughters will have to quarantine for seven to 10 days after returning from their now-infamous trip to Cancun - and they will miss classes at their pricey private school for that whole week, according to a report.

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