Houston Chronicle publishes scathing editorial telling Ted Cruz to resign, again

The editorial board of The Houston Chronicle has called on Senator Ted Cruz to resign over his Cancun vacation scandal in a scathing editorial published on Friday.

Describing the Republican senator’s decision to take his family to Mexico as the state was lashed by severe winter weather as “foolish” and “callous”, the paper said that Texans’ anger with him “could power an entire electrical grid”.

Millions of Texans were suffering through record low temperatures with no electricity or potable water when Mr Cruz was spotted at Houston’s international airport boarding a flight to Cancun.

The editorial says the incident is “sadly telling of his approach to the job over the past eight years”.