{"id":1121261,"date":"2021-12-15T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1121261"},"modified":"2021-12-15T11:28:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:28:35","slug":"democrat-gov-phil-murphy-admits-americans-are-sick-of-masks-and-vaccine-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-gov-phil-murphy-admits-americans-are-sick-of-masks-and-vaccine-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy Admits Americans Are &#039;Sick of Masks&#039; and Vaccine Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-gov-phil-murphy-admits-americans-are-sick-of-masks-and-vaccine-mandates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1121261&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Untitled-4-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said Wednesday that Americans are tired of overbearing coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/12\/15\/democratic-governors-covid-fatigue-524425\">told<\/a> <em>Politico<\/em>&nbsp;the harsh coronavirus mandates and restrictions are frustrating Americans.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Asked about the reasons for his election scare in November, where he won by only three percentage points in the dark blue state of New Jersey, he said,&nbsp;\u201cA lot of folks<b>&nbsp;<\/b>who are frustrated, is my guess\u2026 They\u2019re sick of masks, being told what to do in terms of vaccines, probably not thrilled with what they sense is going on in Washington, they may have lost a job or a business that went bust \u2014 or a loved one, worse yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murphy, who was among the greatest proponents of tyrannical shutdowns and mask mandates before the election, seems to have changed his mind and become more open to individuals exercising personal responsibility regarding pandemic precautions.<\/p>\n<p>When <em>Politico<\/em> asked Murphy what he had learned from barely escaping election defeat in November, he said more decisions must be based on science rather than on political coercion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">\u201cDo two things: Do right by Covid. And I know all these folks, and they do that already, but keep making the decisions not based on the politics but based on the facts of the science and of the data,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">\u201cAnd secondly, make sure you\u2019re at the kitchen table of working families in your state, making sure they understand both what you\u2019re doing as a governor, and what the president and Congress are doing nationally translates into their evening discussion,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">Murphy narrowly defeated Republican former state lawmaker Jack Ciattarelli in a race that was not predicted to be closely contested. The <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/democratic-new-jersey-governor-phil-murphy-wins-re-election-ap-2021-11-03\/\">called<\/a> the election for Murphy with 90 percent of the ballots counted, showing Murphy with 50.03 percent of the vote and Ciattarelli with 49.22 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\">\u201cIf you want to be governor of all of New Jersey, you must listen to all of New Jersey. And New Jersey, I hear you,\u201d he said after winning reelection.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said Wednesday that Americans are tired of overbearing coronavirus restrictions. 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