Ted Cruz ridiculed for telling CNN to leave the U.S. over one of its travel stories

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz — whose political baggage will forever include fleeing his home state for Cancun while his constituents endured a deadly ice storm — is making news for yet another ill-advised social media meltdown. This time, Texas' junior Republican senator threw a fit Tuesday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and demanded that news network CNN leave the country because it dared report about a U.S. family that decided to become expats due to the current political climate. In the article published in its travel section, CNN spoke to an El Paso family relocating to Italy, who cited police brutality and racially motivated violence as reasons they're ditching the Lone Star State.