Ted Cruz tries to turn his 2021 Cancun disaster into an awkward punchline: 'Humor is always a good thing'

• Sen. Ted Cruz keeps joking about how he fled to Cancun during deadly storms in Texas in 2021.
• Not everyone's taking it super well.
• But Cruz, who's done this several times, doesn't mind. "Humor is always a good thing," he told BI.

Nearly three years ago, Sen. Ted Cruz committed severe political malpractice.

"Look, it was obviously a mistake, and in hindsight, I wouldn't have done it," the Texas Republican told a local TV station after he was caught fleeing his home state for the sunny Mexican resort city of Cancún during a deadly winter storm.