“The Messaging Is an Absolute Failure”: Biden’s COVID Strategy Is About to Face a Major Test

California governor Gavin Newsom had to fight off a recall effort. New York governor Andrew Cuomo resigned after the release of a damning sexual harassment investigation. But both incidents fall short of the ordeal endured by Governor Gretchen Whitmer: a right-wing extremist kidnapping plot that would have left her adrift in a boat on Lake Michigan, in a nasty foreshadowing of the January 6 attack on the Capitol. One man has pleaded guilty to taking part in planning to abduct Whitmer in retaliation for her aggressive pandemic-fighting policies; five more are scheduled to go on trial in March. Yet the… Read Full Article