As Mary Talley Bowden celebrates that a few new members of Congress had signed her pledge calling for the removal of mRNA vaccines from the market, you might suspect that she was leaving something out.
After all, election night didn’t really go well for anti-vaccine influencers…
Missing Information About mRNA Pledge Signers
In fact, despite Mary Talley Bowden highlighting a few wins, there were some big losses for her pledge signers, including:
Chip Roy (TX, Republican) - Primary runoff for Texas attorney general
Briscoe Cain (TX, Republican) - Primary runoff for U.S. House District 9
Joseph Fox (MI, Republican) - Primary for Michigan Senate District 33
Glenneda Zuiderveld (ID, Republican) - Primary for Idaho Senate District 24
Monty Fritts (TN, Republican) - Primary for Tennessee governor
Stacy Besch (IA, Republican) - Primary for Iowa Senate District 5
Royce White (MN, Republican) - Primary for U.S. Senate
Ralph Heap (AZ, Republican) - Arizona Corporation Commission
Andrew Lawson (CA, Republican) - California Assembly District 79
John McBride (CA, Republican) - U.S. House District 9
Eric Bodenstab (CO, Republican) - Colorado House District 27
Greg Lopez (CO, Unaffiliated) - Colorado governor
Frank Russo (FL, No Party Affiliation) - Florida governor
Rachel Rodriguez (FL, No Party Affiliation) - Florida lieutenant governor
Dillon Fillion (IA, Republican) - Iowa House District 81
Zach Lahn (IA, Republican) - Iowa governor
Lindsey Tichenor (KY, Republican) - Kentucky Senate District 6
Lisa Mair (MA, Republican) - Massachusetts House, 12th Worcester District
Ted Semesnyei (MA, Republican) - Massachusetts Senate, 2nd Essex and Middlesex District
Heather Smiley (MI, Republican) - U.S. House District 6
Karl Bohnak (MI, Republican) - Michigan House District 109
Autumn Smith (MI, nonpartisan race) - Battle Creek city commissioner at large
Jennifer Long (MI, Libertarian) - Michigan House District 77
Bill Lieske (MN, Republican) - Minnesota Senate District 58
Jeff Dotseth (MN, Republican) - Minnesota House District 11A
Jonathan Almond (NC, Republican) - North Carolina House District 73
Donald McFarlane (NH, Republican) - New Hampshire House, Grafton District 18
Jon Gablinske (NH, Republican) - New Hampshire House, Grafton District 7
Kristin Noble (NH, Republican) - New Hampshire House, Hillsborough District 2
Yury Polozov (NH, Republican) - New Hampshire House, Merrimack District 10
Barbara Quigley (RI, Republican) - Rhode Island House District 22
Jackie Terribile (SC, Republican) - South Carolina House District 66
Tim McDonough (TX, Republican) - Texas House District 114
Barry Wernick (TX, Republican) - Dallas County commissioner, Precinct 2
Benjamin Bumgarner (TX, Republican) - Texas House District 63
Bo French (TX, Republican) - Texas railroad commissioner
Caroline Harris Davila (TX, Republican) - Texas House District 52
Celena Pawlak (TX, Republican) - Judge of the Texas 269th District Court
Don Huffines (TX, Republican) - Texas comptroller of public accounts
Don McLaughlin (TX, Republican) - Texas House District 80
Jenn Mack Raphoon (TX, Independent write-in) - Texas governor
Mayes Middleton (TX, Republican) - Texas attorney general
Samuel Aundra Fryer (TX, nonpartisan race) - Corpus Christi school board, District 4
Tiffany Nelson (TX, Republican) - Texas State Board of Education, District 6
Valoree Swanson (TX, Republican) - Texas House District 150
Shelly Arnoldi (VA, Libertarian) - U.S. House District 8
William Ridenour (WV, Republican) - West Virginia House of Delegates District 100
What else?
Anti-vaccine influencers will have much less influence in many states, as they moved to legislatures and governorships that won’t be receptive to pushing through their laws that make it more likely that kids will get a vaccine-preventable disease.
And that’s because people are becoming more skeptical of the misinformation and propaganda they have been hearing about vaccines, especially in the wake of record breaking measles outbreaks and regular news of measles deaths.