things we were texting. this is a wake-up call for democrats. what joe biden did with the mandates, you think it helped him. but also they saw the polling and what was happening with gavin newsom out in california and they possibly realized that they needed to be stronger with the mandates for masks and for vaccines as well. so this is a message or something that maybe democrats should be repeating around the country that they've learned from california. >> i agree with harry that you can't replicate the exact same policies in every state, obviously there's a different baseline but in general one of the clear messages of this is that everywhere democrats can lean into a tougher response to the virus than republicans are offering in whatever state. like in texas you might not argue for a statewide mandate. you would certainly argue against a statewide prohibition on local governments requiring vaccinations or masks. i think what happened here was that as the year began the