How Democrats decided climate change was a campaign issue

Published December 31, 2019 5:00am ET



Democratic presidential candidates are talking about climate change with increasing urgency as they fight for the party’s 2020 bid, but they’re also still attempting to dodge some of the same political traps as a decade ago.

“There’s been a seismic shift in the Democratic Party on climate change since Trump’s election,” Paul Bledsoe, strategic adviser at the Progressive Policy Institute, told the Washington Examiner.

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