[See NewsBusters for more.] According to a Monday New Day panel on CNN consisting of Margaret Hoover and Bakari Sellers, Stacey Abrams posing for a photo without a mask surrounded by masked children was not hypocritical, but rather just an honest mistake.
Hoover began by claiming Abrams' biggest issue was not the actual hypocrisy, but just being political absent-mindedness, "Because understanding politically the dynamics in a, a, in the state that she is in, you know, there is a narrative about Democrats believing that a mask is, you know, for thee and not for me. There is this, you know false narrative, not a false narrative, there’s just this notion that the mask debates and this narrative that the left and the Democrats are trying to tell you how to run your life but they won't hold themselves to the same standard."