The real reason the deplorable mascots have ‘changed their minds’ about the vaccine

Who are these so-called "mascots"?

I know that Mitch is terrified of getting covid. It's been reported that he always wears a mask and he wouldn't go up to Trump's white house when they were all infected.

Now that the Delta variant has shown up on Capitol Hill he is terrified. He is not a well man.

R1: I think OP meant conservative media like Fox News

It's because Trump is no longer a candidate or office holder, so they can contradict him now.

Republicans will never win again unless they start atoning for the Trump years and clean out all the Fake News. They're a fascist party, so they couldn't challenge Trump's dismissal of the pandemic and safety protocols until he was gone.

There's a shit ton of rednecks in their base who are too lazy and self-righteous to lift a finger to save America and they've been pandering to them with Trump.

Also, a vaccine is a much easier solution to a global pandemic than all the restrictions and closing down the economy from the commercial predators who own the Republican Party.

Bill Cassidy is suddenly talking about the vaccine in a positive way.

Steve Scalise posted a pic of him getting the shot yesterday.

Even that odious Shapiro kid is talking up the vaccine now.

I agree. Something happened.

Every once and awhile FOX tells these hypocritical rich pundits who rely on Fox for their influence, to change course. Fox and the Pundit Powers that Be must have decided to move on to a new story arc. Even TRUMP himself knows its all a spectacle, it's all show business. He'll have something new when he doesn't become POTUS again, mid-August.

Your reasons are not mutually exclusive OP.

1. They suddenly realized they're at risk of losing more White voters to Covid than Black voters they can suppress;

AND,

2. Rupert’s lawyers haven’t even dug him out of the billion dollar lawsuits over the Hugo Chavez voting machine fiasco.

You think they need more?