Recent election issue polls show that climate change ranks below inflation, immigration, healthcare, and the economy as voters’ top priorities for 2024. A poll by Monmouth University even showed that younger voters dropped climate change from their list of top issues for 2024. Younger voters show more concern about the cost of living.
Despite those statistics, leftist environmentalist groups are sounding the alarms about potential consequences if the Republican Party succeeds on Election Day.
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An excerpt from a recent story in the Washington Post reads: “A Republican election sweep could transform U.S. climate policy. President Biden’s signature environmental actions could be reversed if the GOP takes control of the House, Senate, and White House. The EPA and other agencies could see their budgets slashed.”
Democrats, including President Biden, assert that if the GOP wins this year, they may defund and dismantle federal agencies focused on the environment, reduce regulations aimed at combating climate change, and permit unlimited oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
However, according to recent polls, even a liberal-leaning poll by Data for Progress, reveal that Democrats’ alarmist messaging methods have not persuaded voters to rank climate change as a key issue. In KFF’s poll of female voters in two battleground states, Arizona and Michigan, climate change and the environment were an afterthought.
According to KFF’s poll, inflation dominates as the top issue among female voters, with 40% of those polled ranking it as their number one issue in the 2024 presidential race. The other issue that ranked closet to inflation was “threats to democracy”, cited as the top issue by 22%, while 13% said immigration and border security, and 10% said abortion.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been the target of liberal environmental groups accusing him of not doing enough to protest Florida’s natural resources.
Jane West, with the group 1000 Friends of Florida, said DeSantis’ record on the environment is “confusing and hypocritical.”
The Sierra Club of Florida graded DeSantis a D-minus on the environment, but legislation he has proposed defies Sierra’s characterization. His office has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Everglades restorations, and this year’s budget announced an additional $1.5 billion for Everglades restoration and water quality improvements.
“Governor DeSantis has been a true champion on the environment,” said Eric Eikenberg, CEO of the Everglades Foundation.
Eikenberg says DeSantis came into office on day one with the restoration of the Everglades ranked as a top priority and “has consistently kept his promises.”
These same groups that refuse to give DeSantis any credit for the environment also fail to mention that the governor spent millions of dollars on research to help prevent flooding, improve water quality in Lake Okeechobee, fight red tide, and or the $1.5 billion DeSantis requested for the Everglades and combatting rising sea levels.
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