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The big issue Democrats have stopped talking about

The Democrats who prevailed in electoral races earlier this week were no exception. Abigail Spanberger, who became the first woman elected governor of Virginia, rarely mentioned climate change on the campaign trail — instead focusing her attention on the rising cost of living and education. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic governor-elect of New Jersey, largely focused on climate change in the context of resilience against disasters in the coastal state. And Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist winner of the New York City mayoral election, focused intently on rising rents and grocery bills, only discussing climate change when directly asked about it.

According to Adam Jentleson, a veteran Democratic operative and the founder and president of the Searchlight Institute, Democrats are learning that direct focus and messaging on climate change doesn’t necessarily pay off. (In September, the Searchlight Institute urged Democrats to obey “the first rule about solving climate change: Don’t say climate change.”) Democratic voters care about climate change, he argued — but not enough to vote primarily on that issue.

According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans are concerned about global warming — but the issue ranks lowest in concern among all environmental issues polled, below extinction of plant and animal species, polluted drinking water, and the loss of tropical rainforests.

It also tends to be at the bottom when compared to real issues, hence, it is not a big issue.

“Climate change has fallen into the ‘friend zone’ of voting,” Jentleson said. “And as in life, when you’ve fallen in the friend zone, it’s really hard to get out of it.”

Let’s be honest, when 99% of people go to the polls ‘climate change’ is barely considered. Perhaps if Democrats weren’t completely in the tank with Trump Derangement Syndrome they could focus on the scam, or anything else.

Instead, Democrats are talking about increased electricity and energy prices — blaming President Donald Trump’s partial repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act and harsh crackdowns on wind and solar power. Sherrill promised to freeze utility rates in New Jersey and declare a “state of emergency” on electricity prices. Spanberger promised to force data centers to pay their fair share of electricity before plugging into the grid.

“The climate movement in the past has gotten a lot of flak for being too lofty and abstract,” said Holly Burke, vice president of communications at Evergreen Action, a climate advocacy group. “I see the pivot to affordability not as a shift away from climate, but as a shift to meeting people where they’re at. We’re in a national cost-of-living crisis right now.”

Should be fun when energy prices in NJ skyrocket to go with scarcity. But, notice that Dems are trying to shift to “affordability”, which will have the same results: more unaffordable, unreliable energy, higher prices, forcing people into EVs, onto buses and trains and bikes, limiting what citizens can do and purchase.

It’s not just Democrats. Republicans are also talking less about climate, The Post’s analysis found, and so is the media. According to a project by the University of Colorado and a suite of other universities, global media coverage of climate change has been declining since 2021. In October 2021, news coverage of the issue peaked, with about 1,100 articles per month across newspapers in Africa, North America, Europe, and Asia. In September 2025, the number had fallen to about 400. In the United States, coverage fell by almost two-thirds during that same period.

When real world issues interfere, like wars in Ukraine and Israel, no one cares about theoretical issues. And what you see is the same article repeated all over. This article is actually a Washington Post article repeated all over. Don’t expect the cult to give up, though. That ain’t happening.

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