Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called the flooding aftermath at Texas’ Camp Mystic — where at least 27 campers and counselors died amid flooding — “the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen.”
“The water rose 7 and 8 feet … the cabins are cleaned out, all of the furniture has been pulled out by the current,” he told Lindsey David on ABC News Live Prime after touring the campground. “It’s heartbreaking.”
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (Texas) speaks at a news briefing in Texas’ Hill Country near the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas on July 7, 2025.
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Cruz said his daughters have gone to summer camps in Kerr County, in Texas’ Hill Country, for 10 years and said just last week, his wife had picked up their youngest daughter from camp.
For now, the focus remains on search and rescue, Cruz said, but in the coming weeks and months, he said he hopes to take a look at the timeline of exactly what happened and when warnings went out to see if something could have been done better.
“There’s no doubt, any one of us, if we had a time machine and we could step in it right now, we would run to those girls’ cabins and pull them out of the cabins before the floodwaters rose,” he said. “And so it’s worth asking, what could have been done differently?”
Cruz, who was on a pre-planned trip with his family in Greece on Friday when the floodwaters rose, said he was working the phones almost immediately, calling the governor, other state officials and even President Donald Trump.
“You know, look, people love to play politics. I was overseas on a family vacation when this happened. I was almost immediately on the phone,” Cruz said, adding, “And then I booked a flight and came back.”
Cruz said he left Sunday morning and arrived in Texas on Sunday night.
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