What Went Down At The December Democratic Primary Debate

In the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll conducted this week, 10.5 percent of people said climate change was the most important issue to them in the Democratic primary. Here’s who those respondents thought would be best at handling the issue. (See other results from the poll here.)

Who voters think is best on climate change

Among the 401 respondents who said climate change was the most important issue to them in an Ipsos/FiveThirtyEight poll

candidate		Share of respondents
Bernie Sanders	28.3%	– –
Elizabeth Warren	24.1	– –
Joe Biden	14.2	– –
Tom Steyer	10.4	– –
Pete Buttigieg	9.8	– –
Someone else	4.9	– –
Andrew Yang	4.4	– –
Amy Klobuchar	0.9	– –

Steyer is taking shots at Buttigieg for not being as progressive as his age cohort on climate change.

According to a September poll from Stanford University, 25 percent of Californians reported that they or someone they knew had experienced a wildfire in the past year. Sixty-two percent of respondents support restricting residential development in fire-prone areas, but just 28 percent support mandated relocation out of those areas.