• Past words came back to haunt Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Thursday after he was accused of vacationing in Cancun amid a winter snow storm that left thousands without power in Texas.

• Photos circulating on social media this week purportedly showed Cruz on a Wednesday flight from Houston to Cancun. Former MSNBC anchor David Shuster confirmed that Cruz had traveled to Cancun with his famiily.

• By Thursday, a number of Cruz’s old tweets resurfaced and had not aged well. “I got no defense,” Cruz wrote earlier this month regarding the hypocrisy of his criticism of California’s handling of a winter storm. In another tweet, Cruz promised to “work hard each and every day.”

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