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Cruz Takes Aim at Trevor Noah — Host Fires Back With Cancun Reference

by Bradley Cortright
April 28, 2021 at 11:48 am
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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) carries his luggage at the Cancun International Airport before boarding his plane back to the U.S., in Cancun, Mexico February 18, 2021. (Stringer/Reuters)

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Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” is firing back at Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after he claimed the host “doesn’t understand why people like freedom.”

On Wednesday, Cruz shared a clip of Noah’s show where he bemoaned the news that New York will lose a House seat because the latest Census data found that it came 89 short residents of what is required to keep the seat.

Cruz said, “Trevor Noah whines that people are fleeing high-tax blue states [and] moving in droves to low-tax states like Texas, where the jobs are. Doesn’t understand why people like freedom.”

He also took aim at the “The Daily Show’s” tweet that claimed the U.S. is “back in the 1930s.” Cruz said, “Also predicts the Biden years will be the Great Depression.”

Trevor Noah whines that people are fleeing high-tax blue states & moving in droves to low-tax states like Texas, where the jobs are.

Doesn’t understand why people like freedom.

Also predicts the Biden years will be the Great Depression. https://t.co/aNewrWtme1

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 28, 2021

Shortly after Cruz’s tweet, Noah responded with a jab about the Texas senator’s flight to Cancun as his state was suffering widespread power outages due to a winter storm.

“Not sure I’d be using the words ‘fleeing’ and ‘Texas’ in the same sentence, Senator Cancun,” Noah wrote.

Not sure I'd be using the words "fleeing" and "Texas" in the same sentence, Senator Cancun https://t.co/hgRsrN11vQ

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) April 28, 2021

That prompted a response from Cruz, who wrote, “I wear your scorn with pride. I remember when the Daily Show was funny.”

Cruz received criticism in February after an image surfaced on social media of him boarding a flight to Cancun. Millions of Texans were without power as a massive winter storm battered the state’s energy grid.

He initially released a statement that claimed his daughters asked to go on a trip and “wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon.”

However, when he returned, he revealed that he was initially planning on staying in Cancun through the weekend with his family and working remotely.

Cruz told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in an interview that he “started to have second thoughts almost immediately because the crisis here in Texas, you need to be here on the ground. And as much as you can do by phone and Zoom, it’s not the same as being here.”

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Bradley Cortright

Bradley Cortright

IJR, Senior Writer He's written for Independent Journal Review since 2019.

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