Republican Governors Are BEGGING Republican Citizens To Get Vaccinated

Republican Governors have been the most adamant about getting the country reopened, but now their plans are hitting a snag: Their residents within their own Party are the ones refusing to get vaccinated. Now these governors are having to make public pleas to their voters by begging them to please go and get vaccinated so that we can all move forward. This plea is coming a little too late for many Republicans who have already made up their minds that they don't want the vaccine. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Republican governors have a problem right now, a problem that they are finally trying to address, but it may be too little too late. And the problem is that Republican voters, Republican citizens here in the United States are the ones still refusing to get the COVID 19 vaccines and red states are starting to see more cases of COVID pop-up. Arkansas just had its worst day in the last four months last week. So yes, things are not looking good for Republican controlled states. So in the past week, what has happened is we have seen Republican governors, including Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, Jim Justice, by the way of West Virginia and Spencer Cox of Utah, three of them, all had to come out and essentially beg their constituents to go get vaccinated. As it stands right now, based on the available numbers, Democrats are getting vaccinated at a rate one and a half times greater than Republicans. So if a state has a 50% Republican vaccination rate, that means they have about a 75% Democratic vaccination rate.

So yes, Democrats are taking this seriously. Democrats are doing what they're supposed to be doing, getting the vaccine so that we can all go back to our normal lives. Things can open up. The economies can restart and whatnot. And Republicans who've been and moaning about this since day one going as far as to storm Capitol buildings, armed to the teeth because they want their state reopened. Now it's like, okay, just do this thing then and we can all reopen and we'll all be safe. And now Republicans are like, well, I'm not going to do it now. I'm not going to do it. I don't want your little Fauci ouchie, totally not going to do it. And actually Fauci speaking of, mentioned last week that we're rapidly approaching a point of having two America's at this point, vaccinated America and un-vaccinated America. And it is based unfortunately on these political divides and its political divides that these governors who are out there begging their constituents, please, please get these vaccines now.

Y'all helped foster this. You were not out there vigorously fighting the misinformation coming from your political party about these vaccines. You're not out there, you know, denouncing Tucker Carlson, who has repeatedly, you know, multiple times per week telling his audience how dangerous these vaccines could be. And I guarantee you that dude is vaccinated. But there is so much misinformation coming out right now, most of it coming from the right and that's your Frankenstein's monster. You have to fix that and going out on TV, you know, showing up on the, you know, weekend talk shows saying, well, we would like all of our residents to be vaccinated if it's, if it's not too much trouble for them. No, that's not good enough. You have to go out there and you have to call it what it is. You have to call it lies. You have to call it misinformation. You have to say that there are bad faith people arguing out there against this for literally no reason, by the way.

All these people trying to go out there and say that, no, you don't need the vaccines working.