Democrats lean into vaccine mandates ahead of midterms
Democrats are feeling increasingly confident that strict COVID-19 policies are a winning campaign issue in 2022, motivated by a spate of recent polling and California Gov. Gavin Newsom's triumph this week over a Republican-led effort to recall him from office.
After President Biden imposed a sweeping vaccine mandate last week that extended to certain private businesses, Republicans embarked on a campaign to cast the move as a blatant example of government overreach and an infringement of personal liberties, believing that such a message would resonate with Americans already weary from a 1 ½-year pandemic.
But now, Democrats say they have the evidence to prove that the public is on their side, fueling a sense of hope within the party as it prepares to defend its razor-thin congressional majorities next year.
"This is going to be a referendum on the pandemic," New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, the chairwoman of the Democratic Governors Association, said of the 2022 midterms before pointing to Tuesday's recall vote in California that saw voters easily reject an effort to oust Newsom from the governor's mansion.
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