'Republicans run away': Texas governor slammed for traveling as hurricane pounds his state

While Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott was nowhere to be found — because he was off on a nine-day trip across South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.

Abbott's trip, which according to The Daily Beast was intended to “drive forward progress in industries critical to the future of the global economy,” began on Friday, by which time it was apparent the hurricane would hit the eastern part of the state on Monday, causing a hazardous storm surge, blackouts that cut off power to 2 million people...