Climate Depot executive editor Marc Morano, speaking to Fox & Friends Weekend from Bulgaria en route to the U.N.’s COP31 summit in Turkey, laid out the strategy in plain terms: Democrats were told to go quiet on climate for the entire midterm cycle, and now that they’ve won the House and Senate, the silence is over.
“There’s actually an environmental publication called Heated that explicitly interviewed people and said that the billionaire-backed groups of the climate movement are telling Democrat politicians in this whole midterm cycle to, quote, shut up about climate change, unquote, and focus on the economy.” That was the message from the donors, Morano said.
It’s not a fringe claim. The climate newsletter has reported for months on what strategists call “ ” — a push from centrist donor networks like Welcome PAC and think tanks like Third Way, urging candidates to stop saying the word out loud and talk about grocery prices instead.
Morano’s point: that was never about believing the issue was unimportant. It was about getting through an election. “ ‘ , , ∗ .” He expects a push to revive the $ in Inflation Reduction Act climate spending Trump clawed back, plus what he called “ 2.0”.
Meanwhile, the actual energy numbers Democrats will have to run against haven’t changed: the U.S. is producing more oil than any country in history — a fact Morano noted even on air.
