Eight Democratic candidates accepted CNN’s invitation to participate in a climate town hall in September, CNN reported Monday.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts will take part in the 24-hour news channel’s Sept. 4 town hall, according to the network.
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas and businessman Andrew Yang were among those who received an invitation.
CNN is inviting candidates who reach 2% support in at least four Democratic National Committee-approved polls.
Sen. Kamala Harris of California declined the invitation, citing a previous engagement, while Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has so far failed to meet the requirements. He is running exclusively on fighting climate change.
Candidates will take questions from a live studio audience in New York and a CNN moderator, according to CNN’s report.
The audience will be drawn from Democratic voters interested in the issue. The town hall comes after DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in June that the party will not hold a debate on global warming. [In poll after poll, climate change was a dead-last issue. It’s only a priority among far-left Democrats after healthcare and the economy and only during the summer. -CCD Ed.]
Perez said in a Medium post that month that climate change is just one of several high-priority issues, and that it would be unfair to host a debate revolving around it.
The DNC has not responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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Could they circle the wagons any tighter?
Unfortunately, this will most likely not be INFORMED debate…
This will not be a debate at all. It will be more like a rally, in Hitler-Nazi fashion, to inflame the masses and convince another few hundred uninformed citizens that global warming really is an issue (even though it’s not). Just by making so much noise about a topic, so many of those who are not paying direct attention start to assume that “experts” have confirmed that there’s a problem.
This is precisely why the Alt left Democrats will lose . The climate con-game is way way down the list of concerns yet the Democrats hungry for cash cannot help
but tell everyone that the scam is the worlds great threat . No it isn’t and most people not so susceptible to brain washing from morons already know that .
Why don’t they have a debate on fixing the top 5 things on peoples mind .
Like hmm … the massive debt . OK a leap to far and that’s a Republican issue after all isn’t it ?
How about medicare … again just out of their IQ range . Except if everything is free of course .
How about the fact China is infiltrating the country … Russia Prussia is nothing in comparison . how about those jobs lost?
How about the murder rates in Chicago , Baltimore, etc etc . You know real problems .
Hey here is a soft ball … outlaw off shore trusts and ban USA companies from avoiding $trillions in taxes .
No none of those above just . . .the earth has a fever and little ol humans are going to stamp it out . Good luck with that Democrat eco -anarchists Good Luck . .
Maybe this is just a Tom Steyer audition for second banana in which every wacho will be trying to out green wash the others for cash and a job .
Here are the words to be repeated , Existential threat , climate emergency , polar bears , I drove here on an electric skate board how about you ?
It is truly shocking that in this day the biggest con-job in history (the earth has fever ) is the Democrat Big Election Issue .
What I would like to see is a get-together of those potential candidates who are currently or have been in office – detailing what legislation they have authored in the past. Did their Bill(s) make it out of Committee? Were they voted on on the floor. Did any become law?
If they can come up with nothing better than – say – a “Bill to change the name of a Post Office” —– well, could be all of them are about as useful as an udder on a male bovine
All that mindless braying from the Democrats and no skeptics allowed fine with me the democrats can go suck up to the Globalists all they want we dont want t hem or need them anymore
I think you are on to something Graham McDonald . Yes indeed, a report card .
No bills tabled . D No bills passed D . It is absolutely soul destroying how grossly incompetent and unproductive these tax hogs really are .
People will speak with their wallets for only so long .
I’d heard about it on another web site, so I just tracked it down – the study has been made. It’s at https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2019/06/01/what-senators-do-and-dont/
I’m guessing that those who take part in this “debate” will be trying to outdo each other on the dangers of “Climate Catastrophe” and how much to spend to solve this non-problem.