Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) on Monday endorsed the “Green New Deal,” a proposal that sets a goal of getting 100 percent of U.S. electricity from renewable energy.
“I support a Green New Deal,” she said during a CNN town hall in Iowa.
“Climate change is an existential threat to us, and we have got to deal with the reality of it,” she added.
Harris, who hadn’t previously thrown her support behind the proposal popularized by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), doubled down on the endorsement in a tweet Monday night following her remark at the town hall.
“I support a Green New Deal. Climate change is an existential threat to all of us, and we have got to deal with the reality of it,” she tweeted.
“I support a Green New Deal … Climate change is an existential threat to us and we have got to deal with the reality of it,” Kamala Harris says. #HarrisTownHall https://t.co/0EMGUsQFut pic.twitter.com/HJIG0HFQDr
— CNN (@CNN) January 29, 2019
I support a Green New Deal. Climate change is an existential threat to all of us, and we have got to deal with the reality of it.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 29, 2019
Harris became the latest high-profile Democrat and 2020 presidential candidate to indicate some level of support for the Green New Deal, joining Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as well as former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro.- READ MORE