Posted on 12/15/2021 3:15:00 AM PST by cotton1706
Democratic governors were already barreling straight into a perilous midterm election. But a building winter Covid surge is putting many of them in a greater bind.
The party’s defeat last month in Virginia — and closer-than-expected victory in New Jersey — has many Democrats searching for an off-ramp to the pandemic that allows them to sell a brighter future to voters next November.
But, at the same time, attendees here at the Democratic Governors Association’s winter meeting were nodding to voters’ frustrations with the enduring pandemic and its accompanying hardships, a potentially more contagious variant is emerging, and some blue states have reimposed mask mandates going into the holidays.
Asked in an interview about his November close call, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy attributed it to “a lot of folks who are frustrated, is my guess.”
In his most candid assessment of his 3-point victory to date, Murphy said some New Jerseyans “feel like government is not connecting with them. They’re sick of masks, being told what to do in terms of vaccines, probably not thrilled with what they sense is going on in Washington, they may have lost a job or a business that went bust — or a loved one, worse yet.”
Murphy — who, it was announced here, will lead the DGA in 2023 — said that his political operation would be launching a series of focus groups in the coming week to draw deeper lessons on his narrow victory in November.
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But they can't do that. Because the power-hungry drives within them tells them to double down, to grind those that resist THEIR authority into the dust.
And soon they will be without power to do so.
They will ease off. The reason? Mission Accomplished. Just look at how they nipped the use of ivermectin in the bud.
Thank God the democrat governors have selected that hunched over misanthrope Murphy to lead then in the next election.
If a translator is needed, the twit just said democrats did poorly because they are killing family members, taking your jobs and eliminating your freedoms. You know, little “frustrations” like that.
The masks that come in boxes that say NOT FOR USE IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS on them?
Those aren’t masks.
They’re MUZZLES.
Fixed it.
Just wait until Biden puts more people out of work with his forced mandate thingy...
Is that any different from the Connecticut People's World Committee Amistad Awards?
naaaa.... close everthing, try to force everyone to get vaccinated, fire those who don’t, require vac passports to get groceries even!
don’t stop now!! go for it!
I am sure the voters in the midterm will support you!
BAHHAHAHAHAHAAHA
Most upstate NY counties told Heir Kathy Hochul the have no intention of enforcing her mask mandate.
Looks like he is up for re-election. It is pretty clear masks don't work and the vaccines don't work very well. He likely knows he could be looking at some very angry voters.
Now the Yahoos tell the sheep their abusers are their friends.
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