Tom Steyer: ‘I Would Declare a State of Emergency on Day One’ to Solve Climate Crisis

‘What we need is somebody who’s a progressive, not somebody who wants to pretty much keep the status quo which I think that’s really what Joe Biden wants’

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STEYER: "Yeah. I think the point is this. I think what we need is somebody who’s a progressive, not somebody who wants to pretty much keep the status quo, which I think that’s really what Joe Biden wants, a kind of status quo person. I think we have a real crisis in the United States. I was trying to say last night, we have a huge racial equity issue that we don’t discuss, that we need to resolve and deal with. We have a climate crisis that I would declare a state of emergency on day one. And we have an economy that’s failed the American people, working families, for 40 years. So the idea that the status quo with a little tweak is the right thing is not the answer right now. We need to turn the page on a failed 40-year Republican experiment that doesn’t work for working people. We need progressive ideas. That’s the truth. We need a progressive like me who really believes in change."

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