Bracewell’s Scott Segal and Liam Donovan were quoted by NetZero Insider from the PRG Pulse 2024 Post-Election Webinar on the roles energy and environment played in President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
Segal highlighted that primary concerns for voters were the economy and inflation, so Republicans tied their messaging about energy into those issues and drove a major realignment of working-class voters toward their party.
Donovan pointed out that Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats were hesitant to “put climate front and center,” creating a “weird, untenable” situation for Harris during one of the stops in Pennsylvania, in which she said that she was not going to ban fracking. “[It]t put them on the defensive, whereas the Republicans were able to play offense.”
