Ted Cruz called Austin's mayor a 'hypocrite' for fleeing to Mexico during the pandemic. It's coming back to bite him.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a history of calling out politicians for the exact thing he's doing now.

As his state suffered days of widespread blackouts and other dire consequences of a deep freeze, Cruz and his family were spotted boarding a plane to Cancun on Wednesday night. The Republican was unsurprisingly mocked for his poorly timed travel, and after just 11 hours in Mexico, seemed to be making a U-turn for Houston.

One common subject of the anti-Cruz firestorm was the fact that just in December, the senator had deemed Austin, Texas Mayor Steve Adler a "hypocrite" for traveling to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and recording a video there telling Austin residents to saty home.

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Cruz's communications adviser Steve Guest also called out what he determined was "Democrat coronavirus hypocrisy."

Cruz didn't acknowledge his past callouts when issuing a statement on his travel Thursday, instead saying he was only accompanying his daughters to Cancun because he wanted to "be a good dad." Kathryn Krawczyk