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By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News<\/p>\n
Members of the\u00a0mainstream media<\/a>\u00a0have described Sen.\u00a0Ted Cruz<\/a>‘s ill-timed vacation to Cancun amid the weather crisis plaguing his home state of Texas as a comparable “scandal” to\u00a0the growing legal woes Democratic New York Gov.\u00a0Andrew Cuomo<\/a>\u00a0is facing over the alleged cover-up of nursing home deaths in his state.<\/p>\n Over the weekend, The New York Times ran the headline, “Cruz and Cuomo Face Scandal. Trump Can\u2019t Save Them,” detailing how the news cycle once dominated by the now-former president cannot divert attention from other political controversies. The story\u00a0lumped Cruz’s aborted\u00a0getaway with Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes.<\/p>\n “For much of the past six years, former President Donald J. Trump has dominated the political conversation, prompting days of outrage, finger-pointing and general news cycle havoc with nearly every tweet. The audacious behavior of other politicians was often lost amid Mr. Trump\u2019s obsessive desire to dominate the coverage,” the Times wrote on Saturday. “Well, the former president has now gone nearly silent, leaving a Trump-size void in our national conversation that President Biden has little desire to fill. That\u2019s been a rude awakening for some other politicians, who find themselves suddenly enmeshed in controversy that isn\u2019t quickly subsumed in a deluge of Trump news.”<\/p>\n “Saturday Night Live” lampooned\u00a0both Cruz and Cuomo during the show’s cold open this past weekend. The sketch\u00a0featured the senator and governor, played by Aidy Bryant and Pete Davidson respectively, attempting to do damage control on a talk show hosted by Britney Spears.<\/p>\n On Sunday, ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl similarly equated the two “scandals” while anchoring “This Week,” suggesting that both had just emerged despite the fact that criticism of Cuomo’s now-famous order placing\u00a0COVID-positive patients in nursing homes began last spring when the order was enacted.<\/p>\n “This week, we also had our first post-Trump political scandals;\u00a0Ted Cruz\u2019s misguided trip to Cancun and the allegations of cover up and deadly mismanagement facing Andrew Cuomo,” Karl told viewers while teasing the upcoming panel discussion.<\/p>\n