And if the Democrats want to win in November they will need to stop talking like policy wonks and start talking like consumers.
President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have been hindering our country’s energy resources for the last year and a half. They are paying off companies to stop them from building new energy supplies. Last month, the Interior Department paid TotalEnergies $1 billion to walk away from two offshore wind leases off the coast of New York and North Carolina, projects that would have powered nearly one million homes. Seven states recently sued the Trump Administration over this decision.
What has the Trump Administration done for voters? Household electricity bills in Pennsylvania, the country's second-largest natural gas producer, have climbed 31% since 2020, faster than the national average. Nearly one in four Pennsylvanians say they struggled to pay an energy bill in 2024. One woman in West Virginia took out a loan this winter to cover an electric bill bigger than her paycheck. U.S. power consumption hit record highs this year and is forecast to keep climbing as data center demand accelerates.
For Democrats, the winning message is not complicated. Americans want more energy of all kinds, delivered fast, at lower cost, on a reliable grid that can handle a hotter climate, a more electrified economy, and rising demand from technologies like AI.
There are three things every Democratic candidate should be saying out loud between now and November.
Second, talk about getting results quickly. The new gas plants MAGA Republicans want will take the better part of a decade to permit, finance, and bring online. With AI usage soaring, that’s not fast enough. A utility-scale solar and storage project can be permitted, built, and delivering power in three years. Candidates can lower voters’ bills by committing to cutting permitting timelines, fixing transmission queues, and getting new generation connected to the grid.
Third, ensure companies pay their fair share. The buildout that data centers and large industrial users are driving should not show up on a retiree’s utility bill. Mikie Sherrill ran a version of this in New Jersey. Abigail Spanberger ran a version of this in Virginia. Both won. Neither sounded like a climate candidate. Democrats are trying to fuel innovation and ensure the companies who benefit most foot the bill.
Democrats have a once-in-a-generation opening to advance a clean energy agenda. Taking advantage depends entirely on whether they can stop sounding like the party of taking energy away from voters and start sounding like a party determined to build more of it.
The data indicate we can win this fight. We just have to be willing to wage it.
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