Democratic victories across the electoral map Tuesday affirmed for climate action advocates that high energy costs are a huge vulnerability for President Donald Trump and his allies—one they plan to use as they fight his agenda and work to flip control of Congress next year.

“The energy affordability crisis is a seismic event that will shape next year’s elections and beyond,” wrote Sara Schreiber, senior vice president of campaigns for the League of Conservation Voters, in a post-election memo.

LCV’s state affiliates invested $7 million in taking the “clean energy is cheaper energy” message to voters in Georgia, New Jersey and Virginia. “This election was a decisive rejection of the Trump Administration’s ban on clean energy, multi-million dollar taxpayer bailouts for expensive dirtier e

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