Jay Inslee, the 'Climate Candidate,' Joins the 2020 Race
Source: Rolling Stone
WASHINGTON — Jay Inslee, the Democratic governor of Washington state, has entered the 2020 presidential race. And he’s betting his candidacy on the idea that Americans care enough about the existential threat of our time — climate change — to elect a president with a laser-like, almost singular focus on that issue.
The news does not come as much of a surprise. Last month, Inslee first spoke to Rolling Stone about the need for a Democratic candidate in 2020 who would put climate change at the forefront of his or her campaign — a role for which he refused to rule himself out. “I do think that it is absolutely imperative that the Democratic Party put forth a candidate who will make climate change a principal, front-burner issue, rather than some peripheral back burner,” he said. “I believe it’s a potentially winning issue to run on, and we need a candidate who will do that.”
Now, The Atlantic reports that the 67-year-old Inslee is indeed running, and that he’s taking all the steps necessary to announce his candidacy soon. He’s recruiting donors using a political action committee he started last fall, forming an official exploratory committee and getting ready to mobilize a network of some 200,000 climate-centric activists nationwide. “We’re laying the groundwork that would make this a feasible thing in the relatively short term,” he said.
In his conversations with the Atlantic, Inslee sounds like a candidate who can’t wait to get a chance to clash with President Trump, especially on the issue of climate change:
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