Shitstain Promises To Attack Democrats' Climate Plans. Uh, OK . . .
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At his Tulsa rally in June, and in many of the campaign speeches hes given since then, the presidents long riff on the climate proved he hasnt forgotten the promise he made to Republicans. Trumps obsession with the Green New Dealfrom his fixation on the completely debunked notion that windmills cause cancer, to his nonsense about cows and hamburgers, to his racist and misogynistic ramblings about Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who introduced the Green New Deal Resolutionis much more central to his reelection effort than it appears at first glance.
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If thats the fight he wants to pick, we say: Bring it on. And new polling shows the Democratic Party should welcome the fight, too. Trump and the GOP appear poised to spend the election attacking Joe Bidens plan to create millions of high-paying jobs by falsely arguing that it will cost $100 trillion, and destroy all the cows, cars, and airplanes. The goal of these absurd lies is to distract us from the truth: He and his party have no plan to address the climate crisis aside from further lining the pockets of oil and gas executives. But the American people want climate action.
New polling from Climate Power 2020 finds 71 percent favor bold government action on climate change, while only 18 percent oppose it. And talking about climate moves votes for Democrats. When presented as a choice between a Democratic congressional candidate in favor of bold climate action and an anti-action Republican, the vote moves 14 points in the Democrats favor. This jump is even bigger21 pointsfor centrist Republican and Democratic voters. These numbers are astronomical, and they make clear that running aggressively on climate is the Democratic Partys biggest political opportunity this election.
Trumps record on climate is damning. He put oil and coal lobbyists in charge of protecting our environmentand they immediately went to work rolling back over 100 environmental safeguards, allowing corporate polluters to pump more toxic pollution and chemicals into our air and water. So that companies like Chevron can keep making billions in profits and pay zero in federal taxes, hes waged a war on our clean energy industry thats cost our economy over 1.1 million jobs. Future generations will face devastating health impacts and extreme weather disasters, all because Trump spent four years allowing fossil fuel lobbyists to dictate his every move on the climate, clean energy, and the environment.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-action-podesta-prakash/