Jay Inslee Was the Climate Change Candidate. Did His Campaign Brand Effectively Convey That?

He's out of the 2020 race, but that may not be the end of the road

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In a field of two dozen Democratic candidates for president, there’s naturally going to be a single-issue candidate or two. Until this week, one of them was Washington Governor Jay Inslee, running on solving the climate crisis.

Inslee withdrew from the race this week, saying on MSNBC that it was clear he wasn’t “going to be carrying the ball.” But, Inslee laid out a pathway to a carbon-neutral America, which included a radical rethinking of everything from the nation’s infrastructure (say hello to electric cars and charging stations everywhere) to buildings (retrofitting 4% of the nation’s structures per year to make them energy efficient) and supply chains (think sustainable, hyperlocal production).

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