“We have a president who says that climate change is a hoax,” said Inslee, who has centred his 2020 Democratic presidential campaign around the consequences of a warming planet. Several candidates who are also senators voted against legislation recently that would have directed some disaster relief to Iowa. As additional flooding is expected in the coming weeks, Republicans have seized on the Democratic opposition to paint the 2020 contenders as disingenuous. Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders — all presidential candidates — voted against the bill but have noted the flooding at campaign events. Trump’s recent erroneous claim that noise from wind turbines causes cancer amounted to something of a political gift for Democratic candidates.

Source: National Post April 16, 2019 18:11 UTC