Jay Inslee Is Running on Climate Change. The Issue Is Catching On, So Why Isn’t He?


For years, climate change was an issue of passionate concern to a few voters, but never enough to ripple presidential politics. The Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump debates in 2016 notoriously did not include any questions from moderators about global warming.

But after an alarming onslaught of floods, wildfires and catastrophic weather, dire scientific warnings about the impact of a changing planet and a president who dismisses it all, climate change has moved up drastically in polls of Democratic voters’ priorities. In some surveys, it has equaled or topped health care and jobs.

And that raises a paradox: Why is the only candidate making climate change the center of his campaign, who has rolled out ambitious policies and has a track record of achievements, Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, stuck in the polling basement?

Mr. Inslee, a two-term governor who served 15 years in the United States House of Representatives (where he was a prominent opponent of the Iraq war), is polling between zero and 1 percent nationally and in surveys of early voting states.

At an appearance in New Hampshire over the weekend, he told a crowd of about 60, “This is a tremendous turnout,” a bit of campaign flattery, but one that drew attention to the fact that hundreds line up for better-known candidates.

Mr. Inslee, whose father was a science teacher, has been an advocate for action on climate change for decades. He has a ready explanation for why he is not polling higher: It is early in the primary marathon, and as a Western governor he lacks a national profile.

“The history of these things is successful, accomplished governors start at 1 percent,” he said in an interview. “That’s where Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter started their climbs.”

Mr. Inslee insists he will gain prominence as more voters learn of his record and his meaty policy proposals, which are getting high marks from activists. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a co-author of the Green New Deal resolution in Congress, told her four million Twitter followers last week that Mr. Inslee’s climate plan was “the most serious + comprehensive” by any candidate.


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