Partisan battle lines are being drawn around coronavirus vaccine passports in what could become one of the defining issues of the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n
A growing number of the Republican Party\u2019s most conservative members have seized on the passport proposals and expected guidance from the White House, blasting them as an example of government overreach that would isolate Americans who choose not to get vaccinated and violate the privacy of those who do.<\/p>\n
The strategy could backfire:<\/strong>\u00a0But that strategy carries some risks for the GOP, potentially giving Democrats a platform to tout their response to the coronavirus outbreak while simultaneously forcing Republicans to navigate the politics of the pandemic well into 2022.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s red meat for the base, sure, but this doesn\u2019t help us win back the middle,\u201d one veteran GOP campaign aide said. \u201cIt\u2019s just more of the culture wars … and it also means talking about COVID instead of the damage being done by Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n An example of Republican criticism:<\/strong>\u00a0Rep.\u00a0Marjorie Taylor Greene\u00a0(R-Ga.), the controversial congresswoman whose conspiratorial remarks have drawn criticism even from some in her own party, this week dubbed the passports\u00a0President Biden\u2019s \u201cmark of the beast\u201d and called the proposal a form of \u201ccorporate communism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Partisan battle lines are being drawn...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-travel","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33594,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33593\/revisions\/33594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}