{"id":1735584,"date":"2022-11-11T17:17:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T22:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735584"},"modified":"2022-11-11T17:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T22:18:02","slug":"midterm-voters-rewarded-elected-officials-who-stood-up-to-covid-tyrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/midterm-voters-rewarded-elected-officials-who-stood-up-to-covid-tyrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterm Voters Rewarded Elected Officials Who Stood Up To Covid Tyrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fmidterm-voters-rewarded-elected-officials-who-stood-up-to-covid-tyrants%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=1735584&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--><p>Despite Democrats\u2019 attempts to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/26\/democrats-gaslighting-about-covid-school-closures-wont-work-because-we-have-receipts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">backpedal<\/a> their Covid shutdowns and fearmongering, the American people haven\u2019t forgotten their radical abuses of power (as evidenced by how <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/10\/why-new-yorks-gop-midterm-loss-is-more-of-a-win-than-you-think\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">close<\/a> New Yorkers came to electing a Republican governor after the Covid-era malfeasance of the state\u2019s Democrat leaders). But voters also haven\u2019t forgotten who pushed back <em>against<\/em> the insanity. <\/p>\n<p>From governors who fought to keep their state economies open to senators who pushed to hold Covid bureaucrats accountable, many major figures who stood up to Covid tyrants were rewarded by their constituents at the ballot box on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Sen. Rand Paul<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who was reelected on Tuesday with 61 percent of the Bluegrass State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcpo.com\/news\/government\/elections-local\/rand-paul-defeats-challenger-charles-booker-in-kentucky-senate-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vote<\/a>, frequently grilled Dr. Anthony Fauci on the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director\u2019s Covid lies. As early as June 2020, Paul was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/06\/30\/rand-paul-grills-anthony-fauci-on-reopening-schools-and-day-cares\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demanding<\/a> to know why children were not allowed to return to in-person learning.<\/p>\n<p>During the summer of 2021, Paul questioned Fauci about the origins of Covid-19, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/28\/fauci-changes-tune-about-americans-funding-gain-of-function-research-at-wuhan-virology-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">engaging<\/a> \u201cin a heated debate about NIH [the National Institutes of Health] sending taxpayer money to the lab that researched bat-based illnesses and was investigated as a potential cause of the coronavirus pandemic.\u201d Fauci denied that the NIH was funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan, and Paul was smeared by corporate media outlets like The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/18\/fact-checking-senator-paul-dr-fauci-flap-over-wuhan-lab-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>, which gave him two Pinocchios for highlighting \u201cample evidence that the NIH and the NIAID, under [Fauci\u2019s] direction, funded gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/07\/new-details-of-fauci-funding-chinese-gain-of-function-research-vindicate-rand-paul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Details<\/a> emerged in September 2021, however, indicating that Fauci\u2019s agency did in fact fund gain-of-function research, vindicating Paul and contradicting Fauci\u2019s testimony under oath.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Sen. Ron Johnson<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who beat out Democrat challenger Mandela Barnes to keep his Senate seat, also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/10\/ron-johnsons-victory-shows-republicans-dont-have-to-sacrifice-bravery-to-win-swing-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stood up<\/a> to the Covid fearmongering during the height of the Wuhan virus insanity, particularly regarding Covid shots. For questioning vaccine mandates, highlighting some Americans\u2019 adverse reactions to vaccines, and discussing potential Covid cures deemed unacceptable by the corporate media, the Wisconsin senator was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/09\/cdc-admits-post-vaccine-myocarditis-concerns-that-were-labeled-covid-misinformation-are-legit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smeared<\/a> as \u201cfundamentally dangerous.\u201d In November 2021, when he posted a video on his YouTube page <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/09\/cdc-admits-post-vaccine-myocarditis-concerns-that-were-labeled-covid-misinformation-are-legit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">featuring<\/a> \u201ca panel on vaccine-related injuries,\u201d his page was temporarily suspended for the fifth time, and the video was declared to be \u201cCovid misinformation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Johnson kept the pressure on Big Tech, calling out tech companies\u2019 attempts to silence opposing viewpoints that were critical of Covid tyrants, as Federalist Staff Writer Evita Duffy <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/10\/ron-johnsons-victory-shows-republicans-dont-have-to-sacrifice-bravery-to-win-swing-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explains<\/a>. Instead of submitting to these oligarchs, \u201che rose to the challenge,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ronjohnson.senate.gov\/2022\/9\/sen-johnson-grills-big-tech-execs-on-censorship-at-senate-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grilling<\/a>\u00a0executives at Twitter, Meta, YouTube, and TikTok for election interference, censoring substantiated information related to Covid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Senator-Elect Eric Schmitt<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The newly-elected senator of Missouri, Eric Schmitt, pushed back against vaccine mandates as the state\u2019s attorney general, <a href=\"https:\/\/themissouritimes.com\/capitol-briefs-schmitt-slams-vaccine-mandates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blasting<\/a> such mandates as a way to \u201caccumulate, aggregate, and maintain power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople can make these very important decisions themselves, and I don\u2019t want to live in some futuristic, dystopian, biomedical security state,\u201d the then-attorney general explained. \u201cI\u2019m going to do everything I can as attorney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notable governors who fought to keep their states open and senators who pushed to hold Covid bureaucrats accountable were rewarded Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1289,"featured_media":1735587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}