Bernie Sanders's new bet: a climate change message can win him the Iowa caucuses

[Uncle Joe]

Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to be the new climate candidate of the 2020 presidential race — and his campaign is betting it can win them Iowa.

The campaign is extending its $1.3 million ad buy in the state with television spot about the Green New Deal, Sanders’s $16 trillion vision for a climate change-conscious economy.

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It makes sense for Sanders to focus on climate in Iowa, a state that has both been leading the country in wind power, and has seen the extensive flooding in recent years.

In fact, 2019 has been Iowa’s wettest year since the state started keeping records in 1895, according to the Des Moines Register. From June 2018 through May 2019, Iowa saw 50.73 inches of precipitation fall, which is 16 inches more than the state average of 34.42 inches between 1981 and 2010. Climatologists in the state attributed the floods in part to climate change, and it’s cost Iowa over $2 billion in recovery money.

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/4/20946855/bernie-sanders-iowa-caucuses-2020-climate-change

[thesquanderer]

1. Now he can get all those Jay Inslee voters. ;-) (n/t)

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[MrsCoffee]

2. He can shuffle all he wants.

Nothing is going to help his campaign at this point.

But it's funny that he is changing his message now that Warren is under attack on M4A.

Well I guess funny is one word.

[George II]

3. Shouldn't the "green new deal" actually be written before he starts advertising about it?

In reality, the farmers of Iowa are more concerned about the bogus tariffs that are killing them.

[Me.]

5. A New Day, A New Deal

[Me.]

4. So Now He's The Climate Change Candidate?

Wonder where he got that idea?