Aiming to win back suburban voters, GOP targets Democrats over closed schools – Roll Call

Republicans, with their sights on the 2022 elections, have seized on the issue of school reopenings in an effort to woo suburban voters who turned against the party during the Trump era.

Pivoting away from impeachment, the QAnon conspiracy theory and the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the GOP sees championing the cause of returning students to their classrooms as a chief, and salient, messaging point that will endure over the next 20-plus months of the election cycle. Democrats counter that Republicans lack credibility on the issue after their party s president, Donald Trump, bungled the nation s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Plus, Democrats say they, too, want kids back in school. And decisions about whether and how schools are open are made mostly at the state and local level. 

via www.rollcall.com