Did Ted Cruz's Cancun trip distract from the biggest political failure in Texas?

Unless you have been living on another planet for the last few weeks, you know that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) went to Cancun -- for a day -- while his state was in the grips of extreme cold weather and massive failure of its power grid.

source https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/ted-cruz-greg-abbott-texas-power-grid/index.html