Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was attacked Thursday on a flight about gun control and school safety policies, prompting the senator to call the rioter a “partisan.” The senator, along with his fellow passengers, was preparing to exit the plane, which was landing in Texas, when a passenger filmed Cruz and began to press him with questions. “Are we in Houston? I thought we were going to Cancun,” the male voice said in a video posted to Twitter. It was an apparent reference to a family vacation Cruz took last year amid statewide power outages. TED CRUZ’S 2022 MISSION TO NEW HAMPSHIRE FOR LEAVITT COULD ALSO PAY DIVIDENDS IN 2024 The man then got the senator’s attention saying, “Senator, thank you for everything you’ve done since Uvalde. All those podcast episodes must have raised a lot of money for you.” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz responded to a passenger who confronted him about his views on the Second Amendment while getting off a plane. (Nathan Barrera-Bunch/POLITICALLY+/TMX) The fan criticized Cruz for vetoing a gun legislation bill that passed the House and Senate with bipartisan support and was signed by President Biden in June. Cruz responded by pointing to his proposed school safety bill that was blocked Wednesday by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who accused Cruz of running “theater.” CRUZ CLASHES MURPHY OVER SCHOOL SAFETY, SAYS IF DEM ‘SHUT HIS MOUTH’ BOTH THEIR BILLS WOULD BE LAW Cruz asked the Senate to unanimously approve his legislation that would provide $15 billion to double the number of school resources, $10 billion to hire 15,000 mental health professionals for middle and high schools and $2.56 billion to security improvements for school campuses; Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and other members of the Republican Conference leave a luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) The fan then asked Cruz if he knew any of the names of Uvalde’s victims, who included 19 students and two teachers in May. “Yes. And ask why Chris Murphy opposed and stopped the biggest school safety bill ever passed yesterday,” Cruz replied. Privacy barriers and bike racks maintain a perimeter at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School on July 13, 2022, following the release of a video showing the May shooting inside the school in Uvalde, Texas. (REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The man then began talking about Cruz, as a passenger told the passenger to let Cruz “fly in peace.” “You don’t care about the facts. You’re partisan, that’s okay,” Cruz said before walking away. Caitlin McFall is a reporter for Fox News Digital. She can be reached at [email protected] or @ctlnmcfall on Twitter.
