Donald Trump’s Electricity Plan Is Popular With Democrats [Video]

Nearly half of Democrats surveyed in one poll are in favor of expanding nuclear energy throughout America, an idea recently touted by former president Donald Trump.

Nuclear energy’s favorability has increased in recent years as more people recognize it as a clean energy source and alternative to fossil fuels, the use of which can exacerbate climate change. Trump spoke in favor of expanding nuclear energy across America, specifically in regard to how he sees nuclear power as an avenue to increase the nation’s energy supply needed for artificial intelligence (AI), in a discussion with Shawn Ryan, a former Navy SEAL and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor, that aired on Monday.

“For AI you will need…more electricity than we have right now,” Trump said. “You’ll need double the energy that we produce right now just for that one industry if we’re going to be the big player.”

“President Trump has said he wants to …