by Kaylee McGhee White at Washington Examiner
Tuesday night’s debates were an unmitigated disaster for Democrats across the board.
In Michigan, Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer resorted to misrepresenting her COVID record when pressed ever so slightly on the issue of school closures. Over in New York, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul floundered when confronted about her state’s rising crime rates. And in Pennsylvania, Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, who suffered a stroke earlier this year, struggled to put together a coherent thought.
Each of these candidates held comfortable leads over their Republican opponents until very recently. But as the races begin to tighten and Election Day closes in, it has become clear that Democrats are not prepared to take on the pressing issues of the day. Worse, many of them can’t even recognize what the pressing issues of the day are.
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When Whitmer was asked about education, for example, and what she plans to do about Michigan students’ abysmal academic performance over the past two years, the governor did what most members of her party have done when confronted with the consequences of their pandemic policies: She blamed the virus and acted like she had no choice but to lock her state down.
This in and of itself was an inadequate response, but Whitmer then made an astonishing claim: “Mrs. Dixon says that I kept students out longer than any other state,” she said. “That’s just not true….Kids were out [of school] for three months.”
This is a baldfaced lie, as Michigan parents well know. Some districts shut down their classrooms for nearly a year — Ann Arbor’s district began its 2022 school year virtually — and Whitmer never made any attempt to reopen them. She also allowed her health director to order all schools in the state, including colleges and universities, to return to remote learning for three weeks in November 2020.
After the debate,…
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