How Democrats decided climate change was a campaign issue

By Abby Smith

Published December 31, 2019 5:00am ET

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How Democrats decided climate change was a campaign issue — 2020 presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, from left, Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, stand on stage during the Democratic presidential candidate debate in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. BidenÂ invoked the legacy of former president Barack Obama in arguing the expansive healthcare proposals fromÂ Warren and SandersÂ would be too costly for the nation. | (Callaghan O'Hare/Bloomberg)

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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