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Jay Inslee's 2020 plan: Become president, save the planet

DAVENPORT, Iowa - The heap of ashes behind Jay Inslee used to be an acute-care center in Paradise, Calif.

Now it was a backdrop for the message the Democrat was about to bring to the 2020 presidential campaign trail - the message he has embraced for more than two decades.

"We can't allow climate deniers in the White House," Inslee said in a short video he posted to Twitter soon after the deadly November wildfire. "You can't stand here and say you don't believe in climate change."

Inslee, who is serving his second term as governor of Washington, doesn't see climate change as an issue for the next president of the United States to address. He sees it as the issue.

It's why he's turned flooded towns in Iowa and burn zones in California into campaign stops; it's why he's giving

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