Rep. Byron Donalds: The New York City Vaccine Mandate Preventing Kyrie Irving From Playing At Home Makes No Sense
Florida Republican Congressman Byron Donalds joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to share his thoughts on New York City’s nonsensical COVID-19 vaccine mandate that is still preventing Brooklyn Nets’ star guard Kyrie Irving from playing in home games at the Barclays Center.
“Bill de Blasio is the worst mayor ever. He put in this mandate. Eric Adams had an opportunity to reverse course and say, okay, we’re taking COVID seriously, but this makes no sense. If you play for the Milwaukee Bucks and you’re not vaccinated and you play the Brooklyn Nets in the playoffs, your player would be allowed to play in Barclays Center. But Kyrie Irving is not allowed to play. This is how dumb the Left is. This is how crazy it’s gone. So I think, you know, people would say, well Byron, you know, the NBA’s not really a bastion of conservative thought, and I would agree it’s not. But if you’re going to be a conservative, you’re going to fight for it for individual liberty, it doesn’t matter who it is. If they will strip the ability of Kyrie Irving to play, they strip the ability of nurses to actually do their job even if they choose not to get vaccinated, they strip the ability of soldiers to serve in our military even though they choose not to get vaccinated, it’s all the same thing, and your principles cannot stop at the water’s edge because now you’re talking about a Democrat. I don’t know what Kyrie Irving’s politics are. I doubt they’re mine, but I don’t know for sure. You can’t stop it at the NBA just because they happen to be a very progressive league. Your principles have to be consistent regardless of you’re talking about if we’re going to save the country.”
Plus, Rep. Donalds discusses why he believes Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be one of the most progressive justices on the Supreme Court if she is confirmed by the Senate. To hear what else he had to say, listen to the podcast!
