Kamala Harris Chooses Large Money Fundraisers Over CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall

Kamala Harris and her 2020 Presidential campaign have decided against attending CNN’s “Climate Crisis” town hall in favour of attending fundraisers in Los Angeles, where rich Hollywood folk will bundle money together in order to support her campaign.

Activists such as RL Miller of Climate Hawks Vote and the Sunrise Movement, among others, were monumental in there even being a Debate/Town Hall on the impending climate crisis to begin with, in which ten of the more than twenty Democratic presidential hopefuls have qualified for. The aforementioned groups felt that as a country and as a planet, the topic of climate change needed much more of a spotlight than a single question at the tail end of other Democratic primary debates.

ABC News campaign correspondent Zohreen Shah reported the news of Kamala Harris' no-show a couple of days ago and the Harris campaign said that she would not be attending the town hall due to a "scheduling conflict" - which led to a literal mountain of negative attention from those who support Harris to more climate-focused voters.

Now, in true centrist flip-flop fashion, within the past 24 hours Kamala Harris' campaign has told CNN that she would indeed postpone the Hollywood fundraiser and attend the Climate Crisis town hall after considerable backlash. "We are happy to change our schedule to accommodate such a critical conversation", Harris campaign spokeswoman Lily Adams told CNN. "As Senator Harris has said, this is a climate crisis and is one of the most urgent reasons we need a new president."

The skeptic in you might question Harris' motive when you realise that the news of the Climate Crisis town hall was announced on or around the 25th of July, almost a month ago. Kamala and her campaign - and all other presidential campaign's - knew that there would be a climate town hall on September 4th and that there would a polling threshold of 2%, as sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee. Kamala Harris had met this threshold as soon as the town hall was announced.

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