Washington state Governor Jay Inslee said on Friday he will seek the Democratic ...
SEATTLE/WASHINGTON - Washington state Governor Jay Inslee said on Friday he will seek the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2020, joining the crowded field as a relative unknown who hopes to catch fire by making climate change a central issue of his campaign.
“I’m running for president because I am the only candidate who will make defeating climate change our nation’s number one priority,” Inslee said in a video released Friday morning. Although less known than rivals including U.S. senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris, Inslee has a strong following among environmentalists and will have financial support from a newly formed environmental political action committee.
He also cites other progressive bonafides, including a 2014 move to put a moratorium on capital punishment and full implementation of the Affordable Care Act and accompanying expansion of Medicaid health coverage for the poor. He tussled with the president at a meeting of governors in 2017, and he has frequently trotted out zingers targeting Trump.
His term in the U.S. House of Representatives was interrupted when he was defeated in 1994 after two years in office, a loss he attributed to his support of the assault weapons ban that Republicans used in their campaign to oust Democrats from power that year.
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