ConservAmerica President Jeff Kupfer recently spoke to Greenwire to discuss how conservative climate groups, like ConservAmerica, are approaching the Republican presidential Primary.
Per the article:
ConservAmerica has been pushing campaigns and candidates to clearly lay out their climate and conservation visions, said Jeff Kupfer, the group’s president.
Kupfer and his colleague, Quill Robinson, wrote an opinion piece in The Hill in November imploring candidates to talk more about the environment, calling it an “unforced error” to avoid the topic.
“This should be one of the issues that all of the candidates mention,” Kupfer said. “They shouldn’t just let this slide as they go through the process.”
Kupfer says he recognizes the issues his group cares about are not high on the minds of Republican voters, and likely won’t be one of the candidates’ top concerns anytime soon.
“But it’s essential as the general election begins to shape itself that Republicans, whether they’re at the presidential level or anywhere else, recognize the importance of the issue, both substantively and politically.”
ConservAmerica has endorsed presidential candidates in the past, and doesn’t plan to change that anytime soon. “There’s probably not a big upside to doing so,” Kupfer said.