So Cute!! Some MAGA Voters And Public Figures - Including Katie Miller - Support More Solar, 'Cuz 'Murca

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At the moment, there is little evidence that prominent Republicans touting solar will influence President Trump to change his mind on solar energy. His 2025 tax-and-spending bill, which phased out solar subsidies, passed the House along party lines, 218-214. Those entrusted with implementing Mr. Trump’s energy policies are led by Secretary of Energy Christopher Wright, the founder and former CEO of Liberty Energy, a major fracking service company. He has called solar panels “a parasite” that provides only intermittent power. In a Feb. 17, 2026, panel discussion, Mr. Wright showed no signs of wavering.

“We got off track because of a wild misunderstanding, an exaggeration” about climate change, Mr. Wright said at a conference at the French Institute of International Relations in Paris. Climate change, he said, “is a real thing, but it has gotten so ridiculously out of whack that we have policies that have just driven up energy [prices, and] driven deindustrialization and made our countries geopolitically weaker.”Even so, a small number of Republicans with influence in the White House are publicly advocating that President Trump adopt it as part of “America First” policy and give solar energy another chance.

Conservative podcaster Katie Miller – wife of Mr. Trump’s Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller – recently made the case for solar energy on social media. Ms. Miller, a former aide to Elon Musk, has been publicly promoting solar energy and has noted that her former boss’s company, Tesla, produces solar panels. She has stated she does not have a paid partnership with the clean energy groups she sometimes cites.“ Solar is now the dominant source of new U.S. power capacity and is on track to surpass coal in total installed capacity before the end of 2026,” she wrote. “70 GW of new solar capacity is scheduled to come online in 2026–2027 → a 49% increase in operating solar capacity from the end of 2025.”

Ms. Conway, a pollster and former Trump senior political counselor, conducted a February 2026 poll of 1,000 registered voters in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, and Texas, on behalf of the pro-solar advocacy group, American Energy First. Her findings: “Solar power enjoys broad, durable, and increasingly intense public support,” including among Trump voters. Eight in 10 respondents agreed when asked if “solar energy should be used in the U.S. to strengthen and increase our energy supply?” Three-quarters of self-identified Trump voters agreed. More than two-thirds of the new solar plants built over the past five years are in states that the Republican Party carried in 2024, including Texas, Indiana, Florida, Ohio, Arizona, Utah, and Arkansas, according to a report by Wood Mackenzie on behalf of the Solar Energy Industries Association.

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https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0404/trump-republicans-solar-power-climate

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1. Solar gigawatts are not the same as fossil fuel gigawatts...

... which are available 24 hours a day every day of the year.

Certainly the fossil fuel industry would prefer a 100% fossil fuel powered economy but in the long run a fossil fuel / solar / wind powered economy isn't an existential threat to them.