"The COVID-19 pandemic was nearly single-handedly responsible for delivering former President Joe Biden a victory in the 2020 election. But, at the same time, the yearlong lockdowns, school closures, and heavy rotation of vaccine mandates by Democrat-controlled state governments drove millions of people to greener pastures in red states.

The response to the same pandemic that helped deliver the White House to Democrats just five years ago could be handing Republicans the keys to the Oval Office, with red states looking to clean up when congressional reapportionment takes place in 2030. The only thing that can bail out blue states and a future Democratic administration from being decimated by their own inability to govern is mass immigration."