The Trailer: Jay Inslee is cheerfully campaigning and issuing apocalyptic warnings
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks with Courtney Tarbox, right, and her mother, Melody Riggs, who are residents of the Seminole Springs park in Agoura Hills, Calif.
To Inslee, it looks like other candidates are “checking a box” on climate — good intentions and no assurance of action. Inslee, who had watched the Obama administration's cap-and-trade bill to limit pollutants be killed by filibuster in the Senate nine years ago, emphasized that only he was calling for the end of that bill-blocking tool, with no caveats.
Inslee, a cheerful and sometimes jokey politician, talks about climate in apocalyptic terms. When he learned that this reporter was on his flight to California, he handed over his copy, just finished, of “The Uninhabitable Earth.” It describes a future of food scarcity, droughts, dead oceans and heat too intense for civilization as we know it.
“You can't solve this through reconciliation,” he said. “There are multiple things, including regulatory actions, that really can't be done through reconciliation. You look at the clean fuel standard, you look at 100 percent [carbon-free] grid, you look at banning super pollutants — it's too big a lift. You can't do a major mobilization of the economy through that process.”Inslee's “war footing” approach to the issue won him some converts in California.
Inslee also separated himself from other Democrats by allowing a super PAC, Act Now on Climate, to raise unlimited money for a campaign that will support him from the outside. The rest of the field has denounced super PACs; that, to Inslee, meant “unilaterally disarming” and allowing the president to “beat our eventual nominee over the head” in 2020.
This is the first ad of any kind O'Rourke has purchased since his defeat four months ago. The variations are key: This sort of A/B message testing is exactly what a campaign operation would do before it seriously heads back out to raise money.Three lesser-known Democratic presidential candidates got their own CNN town halls Sunday: John Delaney, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Buttigieg. Only one of those candidates, Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind.
“If you've noticed, I get criticized for saying anything nice about a Republican,” Biden said. “Folks, that's not who we are.”
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