President Obama hailed the landmark climate accord reached this weekend as “the best chance we’ve had to save the one planet that we’ve got.” To the Republicans vying to succeed him, it was almost as if the deal never happened.
In a stark display of the partisan divide in the United States over climate change, the GOP presidential candidates have said almost nothing about the Paris Agreement.
None of the nine Republican candidates who will participate in Tuesday’s prime-time debate on CNN would appraise the deal when asked on Sunday, although New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he would in the coming days.
“It’s willful ignorance,” said Daniel Weiss, a senior vice president for the League of Conservation Voters, who predicted that such dismissiveness of climate change would be a liability in the general election.
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