I assume he wants to have some credibility at this point; many of his peers have 0. He started months ago when publicly stating “COVID is over”; he enraged the ctrl-left but simply stated what most of us could clearly see. He seems to publicly oppose the radical agenda when it is very safe to do so (as in this case - a simple question anyone with eyes would ask).
Sort of like our moronic senior senator (Bob Casey, Jr.) who made a show vote against some moronic U.S. Senate resolution that would have proclaimed convicted cop killer Mumbia some sort of hero?