Cap-and-Trade Foe Manchin Wins, Cap-and-Trade Fan Perriello Loses
Two other big results for the energy/climate crowd. First, Gov. Joe Manchin (D) is projected to beat Republican John Raese in the West Virginia Senate race.
Jul 31, 202068.6K Shares2.1M Views
Two other big results for the energy/climate crowd.
First, Gov. Joe Manchin (D) is projected to beat Republican John Raese in the West Virginia Senate race. Manchin campaigned heavily against cap-and-trade. In fact, in a now-infamous campaign ad, he actually shot the House climate bill.
Second, projections indicate that Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.) lost his re-election bid to his opponent, state Sen. Robert Hurt, in Virginia’s 5th district. Hurt and others in the conservative Virginia district have criticized Perriello for voting for the House cap-and-trade bill. Environmentalists, for their part, targeted Hurtin a series of advertisements that focused on his support for increased oil drilling. In the end, despite an eleventh-hour campaign stopby President Obama, Perriello couldn’t pull off the win.
So far, it’s not been a good night for Democrats who voted for cap-and-trade. Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), who voted for the House climate bill and helped shepherd it through the Energy and Commerce Committee, is projected to losehis re-election bid as well. But others who voted for the cap-and-trade bill are projected to win their re-election bids, including Rep. John Yarmuth(D-Ky.)
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