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Pure Talk, USA, simply smarter wireless. All righty. So the big news of the day is that Ted Cruz went to Cancun. Yep. That's where we are in American life. So here is what happened.

According to the UK Daily Mail, which has a 59 photo spread. I kid you not, a 59 photo spread,

because this is the only story that the media would like to cover today is the fact that Senator Cruz left Texas and went down to Cancun, and then he came back and was super apologetic about having gone down to Cancun while Texas is freezing and millions of people don't have power. So here is the UK Daily Mail reporting. A chastened Ted Cruz landed back in Houston on Thursday afternoon and said he regrets flying to Cancun in the middle of the state's energy crisis for a vacation, but insisted he was just trying to be a dad. Cruz enraged his state by fleeing in the midst of the worst snowstorms to hit in decades, with the power failing for millions, and people left freezing in the sub-zero temperatures. At least 24 people are known to have died in Texas. Cruz claims his 10 and 12-year-old daughters asked him on Wednesday if they could go on vacation to Mexico with their friends, so he and his wife boarded a plane hours later. It was obviously a mistake in hindsight, I would not have done it, he said, speaking on arrival at his home in Houston, here is what Cruz had to say, justifying why he had gone to Cancun in the first place. Well, Texas is going through horrific storms, and millions of Texans had lost power and lost

peace and had been hurt. And our family was among them. We had no heat and no power.

And yesterday, my daughter's asked if they could take a trip with some friends.

And Heidi and I agreed.

So I flew down with them last night.

Drop them off here.

And now I'm headed back to Texas.

And back continuing to work to try to get the power of what's happening in Texas is unacceptable.

And a lot of Texas are hurt.

Okay.

So a few things that are worth noting right off the bat.

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