Flap over Dianne Feinstein lecturing children in viral video underscores Democrats' split on 'Green New Deal'
by Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times
Feb 24, 2019
4 minutes
WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein's debate with a group of school children over climate change policy, captured in a video that went viral late Friday, underscored tensions brewing within the Democratic Party between its restive liberal activists and more moderate, pragmatic elected officials.
While Democrats are united that man-made climate change must be addressed, how aggressively to do so - and how to pay for it - is an increasingly contentious matter, especially as the wide-open competition for the party's 2020 presidential nomination has gotten underway.
The left is invigorated by Democrats' sweeping wins in 2018, yet moderates
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