Inslee faces daunting 2020 challenge: To ‘get Americans excited’ about climate change

Published March 2, 2019 1:18am ET



Washington Gov. Jay Inslee launched a 2020 run for president Friday making a bet untested in American politics: that a single-issue platform of fighting climate change can win.

He kicked off his campaign with a launch video in which he warned, in emotional terms, that the effects of the climate “crisis” are “being felt everywhere,” as video footage flashed of blazing wildfires and waste-deep floods. He also promised “millions of good paying jobs” in a clean energy economy.

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