Candidates Take Aim At Climate Bill To Win Votes
Two years ago, both the presidential candidates were big supporters of "cap-and-trade" legislation designed to fight climate change across the economy, but ads and debates in this election season show how unpopular that idea has become.
Democrats are running commercials declaring they're against it because it would raise energy prices and hurt their states' economies. And Republican ads attack Democrats for supporting the bill, which passed the House but stalled in the Senate.
None of those commercials is quite as memorable as one being aired by West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, who is running for Senate. The Democrat is so determined to show the people in his state that he's against the climate bill that in his ad he loads a rifle and points at a copy of the legislation.
"I'll take dead aim," Manchin says right before he pulls the trigger, "at the cap-and-trade bill, because it's bad for West Virginia."