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Joe Biden’s True Climate Crisis Intentions.

Can he be trusted?

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readSep 6, 2019
Photo via Joe Biden on Instagram

Personally, I consider climate change and how our democratic candidates plan on addressing the existential challenge it poses as a key factor in how I will make my voting decision. It’s been fascinating as time goes on to be able to weed out the candidates in the race who actually have a substantial, robust proposal that indicates they are taking the problem as seriously as they need to.

While it may come as no surprise to those of on the left, unfortunately Joe Biden has shown us that he is not a candidate to be trusted on this issue.

The morning of CNN’s Climate Change Town Halls, I stumbled across an article by the Intercept, that described Joe Biden’s intentions to attend a high dollar fundraiser immediately following his appearance on CNN. While it’s irritating enough that he’s attending high dollar fundraisers in the first place, it was the man who was hosting the fundraiser that caught attention.

According to the article:

“…David Solomon of Hildred Capital Partners is hosting the fundraiser. His chief investment officer, Andrew Goldman, is a co-founder of Western LNG, a natural gas production company based in Houston, Texas. Goldman and Biden have deep ties. Goldman served as an adviser to Biden while he was in the Senate, and was…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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