NEW w/@akarl_smith: Republicans see an opportunity to begin winning back the suburban voters they lost under Donald Trump's presidency by capitalizing on widespread frustration with pandemic life and directing it at an old enemy: Teachers
Now, support for unions is at a nearly 20-year high and teachers unions favorability has gone up a bit during Covid, BUT...
"This is the suburban-parent revolt," said Corry Bliss.
AFT Pres. @rweingarten told me it's "a reckless and irresponsible exploitation of the fear and frustration that everybody feels right now" and attempt to "deflect blame" from Trump+GOP.
"I think Virginia is the beginning of the nationwide earthquake on this," he told @akarl_smith.
It's not "conservative red meat,"he said just "common sense."
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