The Radical Simplicity of Jay Inslee's 2020 Campaign

[Shrek]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/jay-inslee-campaign-climate-change.html

No other Democrat running for president has a more straightforward message than Jay Inslee, the second-term governor of Washington state who has built his 2020 bid entirely around addressing climate change. “The science is clear,” he wrote in a January op-ed laying out his case before he had even jumped in the race. “We have a short period of time to act. And whether we shrink from this challenge, or rise to it, is the biggest question we face, as a nation and as a people.” He’d soon kick off his campaign with an 80-second video that uttered the words climate change or global warming a dozen times.

It’s natural, then, that Inslee’s campaign often gets boiled down to two words, climate change, but what truly distinguishes him from his Democratic rivals is a different word: priorities. “To govern is to choose,” as he likes to put it. Other White House hopefuls talk about the urgency of climate change, Inslee argues, but he’s the only one in the field who will prioritize it above all else—even health care (though he’s careful to note that global warming affects everything from public health to social justice). Given his long track record of climate advocacy and action, there’s good reason to believe that he really would deliver on his promise.

[Andy823]

1. Yep, but here on DU

It's nothing but fighting each other instead of getting out the message that Democrats have actual plans to fix the mess trump has made. We have a great field of candidates, who have great ideas, and we need to discuss those ideas. We have more than ONE person that can win in 2020, so lets get the message out that the issues are important and our candidates are the ones with the ideas, not trump!