Al Gore is expected to begin campaigning in support of Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency, urging young people to vote and promoting climate change as a generational issue.
According to a report in the Washington Post Tuesday night, Gore is also expected to speak about third party dynamics in presidential campaigns.
With polls showing Gary Johnson and to a lesser extent Jill Stein drawing more votes from Clinton than Trump in a still-close race, Gore’s presence brings echoes of the 2000 race. Gore lost the decisive state of Florida to George W. Bush by a mere 537 votes while third party candidate Ralph Nader pulled in nearly 100,000 votes in the state.
When he endorsed Clinton for the presidency in July, Gore tweeted: “Given her qualifications and experience—and given the significant challenges facing our nation and the world, including, especially, the global climate crisis, I encourage everyone else to do the same.”
The millennials Clinton hopes to court with Gore’s global warming message may not remember the first Clinton presidency. They may, however, remember Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and his Nobel Peace Prize, awarded in 2007.
Gore is one in a long list of powerhouse Clinton surrogates that includes both the President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton, and, increasingly, former members of the George W. Bush administration.
This post has been updated.
A confederacy of dunces, fascists, and egomaniacs conspired to keep Gore from his rightful place in the White House, but to young Millenials it’s very ancient history. They’re far more likely to be familiar with the cartoon Al Gore who was lampooned in South Park.
Hope he reminds them that they actually have to go to the polls to cast their votes.
I prefer a duncy of Confederates
So, this is the guy who made up the global warming hoax? Funny, he doesn’t look Chinese.
Hillary needs to gin up a commercial with the theme “All living US Presidents endorse Hillary”. The only one missing so far is Dubya, and I imagine he’d fall in line if mommy told him to. On the other hand, there is the question of whether an endorsement from Dubya would help or hurt. I certainly didn’t do JEB! any good.