democrats would only pull that mask and date when they decided that the issue was hurting them politically. that time has come. governors murphy of new jersey, that lamont of connecticut, joh carney of delaware, gavin newso of california in now we are not celebrating the vision or the codeword covid stewardship, we are outing you for your cynical destructive destructive ineffective meaningless divisive , and frankly illegal abuse of power these past two years. here is what california versus texas covid cases look like on a . the green is texas. you get the point. the mask mandates made no difference. dropping them isn t about cases declining, it s about democrats and chances in november declining. although apparently the white house is willing to sacrifice the midterms for the mask.