"WASHINGTON — Facing a showdown vote as early as this month over the embattled “Green New Deal,” Senate Democrats are preparing a counteroffensive to make combating climate change a central issue of their 2020 campaigns — a striking shift on an issue they have shied away from for the past decade.
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, outlined the new strategy in an interview last week, casting it as a way to mobilize millennial voters, a key part of the Democratic constituency that the party will need to turn out to win in swing states.
With progressives pushing Democrats to embrace the Green New Deal — and Republicans ridiculing the idea as socialism — Mr. Schumer is effectively trying to turn a weakness into a strength. He is planning daily floor speeches attacking Republicans for inaction and a proposal for a special Senate committee focused on the issue, which he intends to announce this week."
Coral Davenport and Sheryl Gay Stolberg report for the New York Times March 4, 2019.
SEE ALSO:
"The Potency of Republicans’ Hamburger Lie" (New Republic)
"The Good News About a Green New Deal" (New Yorker)
"Adults Failed To Take Climate Action. Meet The Young Activists Stepping Up" (Guardian)
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