Conservative denial and delay of climate action are well established by extensive scholarship (McCright and Dunlap, Glob Environ Change 21(4):1163–1172, 2011; Dunlap and Brulle, Res Handb Commun Clim Change 49–61, 2020; Gounaridis and Newell, Sci Rep 14(1):297, 2024), but there is limited understanding of the discursive strategies deployed within public-facing communications on the part of U.S. politicians, regardless of polit...