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Their wordsWe find they lifted Democratic vote share by roughly 1.5 percentage points in 2024 - a swing of 2.5 million votes, in an election where Trump won the popular vote by just 2.3 million.
Their wordsA close look at the data shows the opposite: Democrats are winning back factory towns with climate investments.
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The learning from clean energy price declines is permanent and cannot be reversed by policy changes.
Their wordsCost declines work like a ratchet - every factory built and every panel installed pushes prices down the learning curve, and once they fall, they do not climb back up.
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