2020 Presidential Candidates on the Issues

[Brian S.]

Four candidates. One presidential election.

Being an informed voter on multiple issues can help to make your voting decision easier. We have compiled each 2020 presidential candidate’s position on multiple issues concerning American voters during this year’s election. The candidates featured on this page are the presumptive and confirmed presidential nominees from the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green parties. These statements and stances were compiled from each candidate’s official campaign website, editorials, speeches, and interviews.

What are your thoughts on the stances of Donald J. Trump, Joe Biden, Jo Jorgensen, and Howie Hawkins? Share your comments below!

[toomuchbaloney]

Trump represents a direct threat to our republic. He is in the midst of threatening and weakening the American electoral process as he creates mistrust in the majority of our institutions. He doesn't want us to trust the FBI or the CIA or the National intelligence experts or scientific consensus...he wants us to trust him and his appointees (qualified and/or Senate confirmed or not).

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/22/579670528/how-democracies-die-authors-say-trump-is-a-symptom-of-deeper-problems

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

sarcasm or sarchasm?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sar-chasm

? ? ? Opinion by George T. Conway III ?

I believe the president Made America Great Again. I believe we need him reelected to Make America Great Again Again.

I believe Joe Biden is “Sleepy” and “weak.” I believe Biden could “hurt God” and the Bible.

I believe that if Biden is elected, there will be “no religion, no anything,” and he would confiscate all guns, “immediately and without notice.” He would “abolish” “our great,” “beautiful suburbs,” not to mention “the American way of life.” There would be “no windows, no nothing” in buildings.

I believe the news media would have “no ratings” and “will go down along with our great USA!” if the president loses — and that this would be bad even though the media is fake.

I believe it’s normal for the president to say “Yo Semites” and “Yo Seminites,” “Thigh Land,” “Minne-a-napolis,” “toe-tally-taria-tism,” “Thomas Jeffers” and “Ulyss-eus S. Grant.” I believe it’s Biden who’s cognitively impaired.

I believe the president “aced” a “very hard” impairment test, and that his “very surprised” doctors found this “unbelievable.” I believe it was “amazing” he remembered five words, such as “person, woman, man, camera, TV” — in correct order. I believe he took the SAT himself...

... I believed the president in January and February when he said covid-19 was “totally under control,” that it was Democrats’ “new hoax,” and that he was “not at all” worried about a pandemic...

... I believe the president and the doctor who believes in demon sperm and the medical use of space alien DNA, and not Anthony S. Fauci, who’s an “alarmist” and “wrong.” I believe the president’s suggestions that physicians should try injecting patients with household disinfectants, and shining ultraviolet light inside their bodies, make perfect sense.

I believe the “books” and “manuals,” if someone would just read them, say “you can test too much” for covid-19. I believe we now have 5 million cases because we test so much, and that the president was right to slow testing down, unless he was kidding — in which case he was right not to.

I believe that the president has done a tremendous job fighting the virus — and that he shouldn’t “take responsibility at all”— even though about 160,000 Americans have died. I believe the virus “is what it is.”...

... It isn’t racially divisive to celebrate Confederate generals as part of our “Great American Heritage,” or to share video of someone shouting “white power,” which, like displaying the Confederate flag, is “freedom of speech.”...

... I believe that a 75-year-old protester in Buffalo may have been “an ANTIFA provocateur” who intentionally cracked his own skull in a “set up.”..I believe Rep. John Lewis made a “big mistake” not attending the president’s inauguration. I believe the president has done more for Blacks than any other president — perhaps even Abraham Lincoln, who “did good” although the “end result” was “questionable,” and certainly more than Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which hasn’t “worked out” so well. I believe the president has been treated worse than Lincoln, even though Lincoln was assassinated. I believe the president should be added to Mount Rushmore, pronto...

I believe that the reports Russia paid bounties to have U.S. soldiers killed, and that the president was briefed on it, are another “Fake News Media Hoax,” and that such intelligence never reached the president’s desk, even though his administration said otherwise.

I believe absentee voting, where voters mail in their ballots, is good, and that mail-in voting, where voters mail in their ballots, is totally different, and bad — and will result in “the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election” in history. Except in Florida, where absentee and mail-in voting are the same and both good, “because Florida has got a great Republican governor.”

I believe we should “Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote” — but that “SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!”

I believe the president won the popular vote in 2016 “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” I believe he shouldn’t accept the election results if he loses in November...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/10/I-still-believe-president-president/

[Daisy4RN]

1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

He doesn't want us to trust the FBI or the CIA or the National intelligence experts or scientific consensus...he wants us to trust him and his appointees

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/durham-probe-ex-fbi-lawyer-to-plead-guilty-in-first-criminal-case-arising-from-review-attorney-says

Not sure why we should...and lets not forget all the lies made by those "experts" Clapper, Comey, Page, Strozk etc

[toomuchbaloney]

9 hours ago, Daisy4RN said:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/durham-probe-ex-fbi-lawyer-to-plead-guilty-in-first-criminal-case-arising-from-review-attorney-says

Not sure why we should...and lets not forget all the lies made by those "experts" Clapper, Comey, Page, Strozk etc

Yes, that's exactly what the Liar in Chief wants you to believe, that everyone else is corrupt and lying and that he is the victim of some nefarious plot. Yet, the preponderance of the evidence would suggest that Trump is a long term corrupt conman, victim only to his own bad judgement.

[Kelley Lamb, ASN, RN]

The spying done by Obama and Biden was proven and thats a fact. They did nothing for us in their time in office. Poor Joe is suffering from dementia and could never handle the job as president. Come on man! This is a nurses site . Stop this left wing propaganda spewing.

[toomuchbaloney]

1 hour ago, Kelley Lamb said:

The spying done by Obama and Biden was proven and thats a fact. They did nothing for us in their time in office. Poor Joe is suffering from dementia and could never handle the job as president. Come on man! This is a nurses site . Stop this left wing propaganda spewing.

Nah. They weren't spying on the Trump campaign but the Trump campaign was real involved with Russians that they were interested in. That's a nuance that gets lost in the propaganda as regurgitated by apologists.

Let's compare and contrast the two men, shall we? One of them rides a bike, the other has trouble with a ramp. One of them overcame a stutter and the loss of wife and children in a terrible tragedy, the other cheated on all of his 3 wives and famously paid a Media star hush money while the first lady was recovering from childbirth. He speaks in word salad and school yard name calling. That guy also thinks his doctors are surprised that he did so well on his cognitive test.

This is a nursing site. Follow the evidence and stop with the Trump worship.

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Who Americans vote into public office affects healthcare of all citizens due to laws passed, funding of healthcare organizations like CDC, NIH, Indian Health Service, VA, and health insurance coverage: Medicare, Medicaid.

Its vitally important that we are knowledgeable about people we elect and VOTE for the person we feel has the best understanding of healthcare needs for our citizens and the best interest of our country.

[emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

12 hours ago, Kelley Lamb said:

The spying done by Obama and Biden was proven and thats a fact. They did nothing for us in their time in office. Poor Joe is suffering from dementia and could never handle the job as president. Come on man! This is a nurses site . Stop this left wing propaganda spewing.

Ya know it’s kinda self-defeating when you lead with fox talking points & end with an accusation of propaganda spreading, right?

[Kelley Lamb, ASN, RN]

Don't think you can use this as a forum to be personally nasty.

[londonflo]

On 8/14/2020 at 11:25 AM, Daisy4RN said:

Oncologist that had a horrible bedside manner (horrible!), pts always complained about him, but I always told them this MD is the one I would want if I had cancer bc he knows his stuff, do you want someone just bc they come all smiles and make you feel good (emotionally) , or someone who knows how to get the job done.

I don't think having a good bedside manner and "knowing your stuff" are mutually exclusive.

Are you saying that a physician that supports a patient emotionally cannot get the job done?

[emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

14 minutes ago, Kelley Lamb said:

Don't think you can use this as a forum to be personally nasty.

Who are you addressing?

[toomuchbaloney]

57 minutes ago, emtb2rn said:

Who are you addressing?

I was guessing it was directed at anyone disagreeing with the pro Trump sentiment. That's Trump's word to describe what he doesn't like...nasty.