CNN’s Smerconish Suggests Opposition to Climate Change Deal Is ‘Down Ballot Concern’ for GOP

Curtis Houck | December 15, 2015
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On two occasions during CNN’s live coverage Monday night previewing the sixth Republican presidential debate, CNN political commentator Michael Smerconish attempted to paint the issue of climate change and the deal reached in Paris as posing a “down ballot concern” for the GOP and causing “brand damage” since the party has largely rejected the ideal and declined to embrace the issue as a whole.

In questioning Republican National Committee (RNC) Communications Director Sean Spicer on AC360, Smerconish wondered if he was at all concerned “about brand damage harming down ballot” considering “the fact that last weekend, front-page of newspapers all across the country, 195 nations buying into doing something about climate change” and there was “frankly not a peep from Republican leadership.”

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