evidence: The Senate rejected the Green New Deal on Tuesday, in a decisive 57–0 vote that Democrats decried as a political stunt meant to divide their caucus. [...] Uniting the four dissenters: a sense that the Green New Deal, in its current form, is neither practical nor attainable. [...] In protest, 43 Democrats declined to oblige him, abstaining from the roll call and voting only "present." All six Senate Democrats openly running for president—that is, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, and Kirsten Gillibrand—co-sponsored the resolution but still voted present on it. Yet because of its four dissensions, the caucus still failed to mount a unified front.