Welcome to Zero. I am Akshatrati. This week, can Joe Biden electrify America?

I'm in Seattle this week at the Bloomberg Green Festival.

It's been a hectic few days of conversations, demonstrations, experiences, all to shape the future of the planet.

There was science, arts, technology, culture, and real solutions that you can see, touch, feel, and even taste.

But it all happened in a week where one thing on everyone's mind is whether or not Joe Biden

can continue as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate following a series of shaky

public appearances. So even as we had rich conversations about the environment, politics

was unavoidable. You know, this is an existential challenge. It's the difference between a chance

to arrest this horrific train coming down the tracks or letting it run over us.

That's the issue in these federal elections.

The climate stakes of this election could not be higher.

That was a cast of top Democrats.

Gina McCarthy, who was the former White House National Climate Advisor,

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee,

as well as Sally Jule, former Secretary of the Interior.

McCarthy, who once was the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, had a little more

to say about whether Joe Biden should stay in the race. She suspected he himself was reconsidering whether to run.

But no matter what his decision, she said he had already earned a place in history as America's

climate president.

The question of whether Biden's legacy on climate is enough was on my mind too.

That matters for America's decarbonized future and for voters weighing up their choices this November. And it is something

I got to ask voting rights advocate and former Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams.

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