Gov. Inslee set to participate in CNN Town Hall

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee will participate in a CNN town hall at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, moderated by Wolf Blitzer.

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Inslee is one of five 2020 presidential candidates set to take part in upcoming town halls, for a list that also includes New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, author Marianne Williamson, and businessman Andrew Yang.

This comes weeks after a poll conducted by CNN in March indicated that 73 percent of respondents didn’t know who Inslee was.

CNN describes Gov. Inslee as “a rare single-issue candidate,” citing his position as a staunch advocate for fighting climate change.

Inslee announced his candidacy on March 1, and quickly made climate change his main focus.

“When you go into Wenatchee, Washington, see a couple crying in front of their house because it was torched, and a man holding his wife … climate change is not an abstraction to governors — we see it when we go to these emergencies,” he said testifying before Congress in early-April.

Wednesday’s CNN town hall is one leg of what’s set to be a busy week for the Washington governor, who is speaking at Columbia University’s Global Energy Summit in New York, and appearing on both MSNBC and CBS.

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