Bracewell’s Liam Donovan told Inside Climate News that he believed climate became “an uncomfortable topic to touch on for the Democrats” because Donald Trump and Republicans successfully put them on the defensive.
“It was messaged by Republicans as ‘your gas is costing more, your cost of living is above where it had been before,’” Donovan said. “And there was a recognition on the Democratic side of the danger of putting climate front and center. You ended up with this weird, untenable business where [Kamala] Harris is on the stage in Pennsylvania talking about how she’s not going to ban fracking.”
