“Look, if a crisis hits my state, I’m there. I’m not going on vacation,” McCaul, the top Republican in the State Department, told Dana Bash, CNN, about ‘State of the Union ‘. Sunday.
“I know that Mr. Cruz called it a mistake, and he liked it, but I think it was a big mistake, and I was on the ground helping my people and my voters, and that’s what we need to do in ‘ a time of crisis, ‘he added.
McCaul’s comments are in line with a failure aimed at Cruz, as he was spotted on a plane en route to Cancun, leaving millions in his home state without power and water. After returning to Houston on Thursday afternoon, he told reporters outside his home that it was “obviously a mistake” and that “it would not have been done afterwards”.
As an official elected to the federal office, Cruz does not have a terrain role in responding to the storm, but natural disasters are often a time when voters reach out to their elected officials for help and access to resources.
Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic congressman from New York, launched a fundraiser, with her press secretary saying Sunday she had raised nearly $ 5 million for Texans affected by the storm. And O’Rourke, who unsuccessfully challenged Cruz for the Senate in 2018, ran a virtual phone bank to contact senior Texas citizens to connect them to resources during the disaster.
McCaul praised their work on Sunday, saying, “I find it great that they cross party lines to help Americans first, and not just Republicans or Democrats.”
“And I think it’s, you know, the way it really should be.”