Washington Gov. Jay Inslee brought his climate change-driven presidential campaign back to New Hampshire this weekend.
The Democrat recently unveiled a detailed, $9-trillion plan to spur rapid renewable energy growth and create 8 million related jobs.
Speaking in Raymond Saturday, Inslee touched on other issues too – touting progressive policies he’s championed in his home state, including on health care, net neutrality and marijuana legalization and pardons for related misdemeanors.
But he says he wants to keep climate change at the forefront of the race – and of his campaign.
"I wanted to be able to look at my three grandchildren in the eye and say that I did everything in my power to give them a healthy life and a non-degraded place to live,” he said during his stump speech. “And that's why I'm running for president, because nothing else will do."
Inslee also took questions on everything from how he’ll finance his climate proposals, to foreign policy, to whether he supports discontinuing the penny, which he said he’d look into.
Some of the 75 or so people at the event said they see Inslee as a one-issue candidate, and they're not sure he can win. But most said climate change is one of their top issues, and so they're glad he's in the race.
