Some Democratic candidates are eyeing a 2026 campaign strategy that targets Republicans for supporting provisions in their sweeping tax and spending law that analysts say may result in higher energy prices.
Last year, Donald Trump won the presidency while running on the slogan “Drill, baby, drill” and frequently criticizing solar and wind energy. But now, Democrats believe they can win votes by arguing that less support for renewables will raise Americans’ energy bills.
The gutting of clean energy tax credits contained within the newly enacted law will lead to “higher costs, fewer jobs and slower progress to decarbonize the grid,’’ said Carol Obando-Derstine, a Democrat running in a battleground district in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley against Republican freshman Ryan Mackenzie. “This is a tremendous step backward.”
