You know radical liberals are getting worried when officials at the White House are mulling over whether or not to declare a national climate emergency ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Then again, when you see how far down in the toilet bowl President Joe Biden’s approval ratings are, I guess it makes sense that they would take a look at their last resort options and see what’s available to stop former President Donald Trump from beating the pants off Biden in November.
The thing is, most people are not remotely concerned about the very much in question issue of man made climate change and are far more worried about things that actually impact their daily lives. You know, like having to sell organs on the black market in order to buy a loaf of bread and some bologna.
According to the Daily Caller:
President Joe Biden’s top advisers have returned to conversations about declaring such a national climate emergency, though those in discussion appear to be divided on the move, the sources told Bloomberg. While the move, the sources say, would stunt offshore drilling and curb greenhouse gas emissions, others think the move would help energize youth voters, particularly those with a focus on climate, Bloomberg reported.
“President Biden has treated the climate crisis as an emergency since day one and will continue to build a clean energy future that lowers utility bills, creates good-paying union jobs, makes our economy the envy of the world and prioritizes communities that for too long have been left behind,” White House spokesperson Angelo Fernandez Hernandez said in comments made to the out let without commenting directly on the reported conversations.
The decision, Bloomberg notes, has not been made and such conversations could carry on for as long as several years. The president’s administration previously considered a similar measure in 2022 once negotiations over clean-energy legislation failed, Bloomberg reported. Biden also said he had declared a climate emergency in 2023 when he implemented “conservation policies,” the outlet reported.
Ahead of the 2024 election, such a move could help Biden win over some of the youth vote as the president trails hypothetical matchups with former President Donald Trump, Bloomberg reported.
Three youth climate activist networks, The Sunrise Movement, Fridays for Future USA, and the Campus Climate Network, are now planning to hold demonstrations around Earth Day as part of an effort apply pressure to the president in hope he will bow the knee to their will and declare a national climate emergency. I highly doubt they would have to twist his arm too much. And if they did, wouldn’t that be elder abuse? Or at the very least, assault?
I kid.
“If Biden wants to win the youth vote, he needs to take forceful action on climate change,” Aru Shiney-Ajay, the Sunrise Movement’s executive director, said to Bloomberg.
While the president is currently ahead of Trump with young voters, the margins are definitely not at all where they need to be to help Biden ensure he spends another four years in the White House. When it comes to registered voters under the age of 30, Biden currently enjoys a lead over Trump, 50 percent to 37 percent, according to an April poll conducted by Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
“For a Democrat to comfortably win the Electoral College, he or she needs to win 60 percent of the youth vote. Biden and Obama, ’12 and ’20, won 60 percent. Obama got 66 percent in ’08. [John] Kerry and Hillary Clinton got 55 percent,” John Della Volpe, director of polling at Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, said in a conversation with Politico Playbook. “Biden is in the mid-50s. Can you improve that to get to 60 percent? It’s within reach. But he’s going to have to get younger men and young men of color, younger men who are white, younger men in the suburbs and their urban areas to turn out.”
You can smell the desperation leaking from Biden’s pores as the realization he really might end up losing this election settles into his brain.