15 Democratic candidates now endorse a full debate devoted to climate change, including Biden,

Sanders, Warren, O'Rourke, Castro, Inslee, and others.

When will the DNC listen to the candidates and schedule one? With 12 debates scheduled (including some double-debates, till the field is winnowed down), the DNC can't argue that it doesn't have the time to devote to this life-and-death issue. Perez's most recent excuse was that it wasn't "practical," and that a President "must be able to multitask" -- which is perfectly true but makes no sense as an answer to the question.

And, no, I'm not going to stop talking about this till the DNC changes its position.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-joins-the-call-for-a-democratic-candidates-debate-on-climate-change/2019/06/11/fa35748a-8c90-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html?utm_term=.d3d6eee52de2

Biden’s comment Tuesday made him the 15th Democratic candidate to endorse a debate focused specifically on climate change, a project of the Sunrise Movement and other green groups that has been championed by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who’s built his presidential campaign around the climate issue.

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“It’s just not practical,” Perez said. “As someone who worked for Barack Obama, the most remarkable thing about him was his tenacity to multitask, and a president must be able to multitask.”

Inslee, however, has continued to pressure the DNC to host a climate debate. He has complained that the party threatened to punish any candidate who appears in an unofficial debate — including, say, one on climate change hosted by environmental groups — by excluding them from the official Democratic debates.

“The Democratic Party has an opportunity to host a debate and to send a clear message that we are the party of climate solutions,” Inslee said in a statement. “I’m calling on Chairman Perez to reconsider his decision, and on every 2020 candidate to clearly voice their opposition to the DNC’s decision to silence a climate debate.”