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Climate Change Could Be a Problem in 2020 … for Democrats
Climate change could be a winning long-term political issue for the Democrats—but in 2020, it could also threaten the party from inside and out.
Elissa Slotkin has learned that climate change is both a national emergency and a political opportunity.
- Michael Grunwald
- Politico
As an assistant secretary of defense under President Barack Obama, she helped lead the Pentagon’s first study of how climate change threatens U.S. military bases.
Then as a Democratic candidate for Congress in 2018, she…