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!
The problem is too many people are on one side of the spectrum. There is no middle ground anymore. It's either my way or the highway with both political parties. The sooner we realize as a country that our politicians don't care about out well being the better off as a country we will be.
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7 hours ago, Chunkybubblz3 said:
His senile self is not even aware most of the time, he can't answer questions unless it's on a prompter to read, and even then it's difficult he can read that.!
Joe Biden's lived just over the DE/PA state line from me my entire life and his entire political career. So I'm aware of legislation he's introduced and passed, newspaper and TV coverage along with how he's conducted his life, especially in coronavius pandemic. As nurse, know that stuttering is a lifelong condition, which he has usually controlled
Being Presidential --- recognizing the need to heal our fractured country.
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In Wednesday's Washington Examiner Byron York interview, Trump calls for drug test before presidential debates
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...President Trump says he will call for drug tests for both former Vice President Joe Biden and himself before the first candidates' debate on Sept. 29. In an Oval Office interview Wednesday, the president expressed suspicion at what he said was a sudden, marked improvement in Biden's debate performance during the Democratic primary season and suggested that he believes the improvement was the result of drugs. The president offered no evidence to support his speculation.
"Nobody thought that he was even going to win," Trump said. "Because his debate performances were so bad. Frankly, his best performance was against Bernie. We're going to call for a drug test, by the way, because his best performance was against Bernie. It wasn't that he was Winston Churchill because he wasn't, but it was a normal, boring debate. You know, nothing amazing happened. And we are going to call for a drug test because there's no way — you can't do that."...
Joe Biden's lived just over the DE/PA state line from me my entire life and his entire political career. So I'm aware of legislation he's introduced and passed, newspaper and TV coverage along with how he's conducted his life, especially in coronavius pandemic. As nurse, know that stuttering is a lifelong condition, which he has usually controlled
Being Presidential --- recognizing the need to heal our fractured country.
Maybe it would have been more helpful if Biden had actually done something with Obama in the (at least) 8 years they were in office. Posting on Twitter will not solve the problem of blacks being killed (including many children) in Dem run cities like Chicago etc. Maybe it would also be more helpful to wait until the facts come out before blaming the police, or maybe providing some education on the way to behave when you are being arrested (ie don't fight the cops).
As a nurse it is completely obvious that there is some kind of dementia/cognitive decline. Not what we need in a President. Can anyone seriously see Biden trying to have a conversation with foriegn dignitaries etc. Come on man!
Maybe it would have been more helpful if Biden had actually done something with Obama in the (at least) 8 years they were in office. Posting on Twitter will not solve the problem of blacks being killed (including many children) in Dem run cities like Chicago etc. Maybe it would also be more helpful to wait until the facts come out before blaming the police, or maybe providing some education on the way to behave when you are being arrested (ie don't fight the cops).
As a nurse it is completely obvious that there is some kind of dementia/cognitive decline. Not what we need in a President. Can anyone seriously see Biden trying to have a conversation with foriegn dignitaries etc. Come on man!
This kind of post is where you lose credibility. By stating the prior administration had no accomplishments, you demonstrate a hyper partisanship that elicits agreement within your political bubble & eye rolls from those not agreeing with you.
Not sure what your nursing experience is but as a long time er nurse, I don’t see obvious dementia/cognitive issues in biden. I also don’t see him being give the montreal cognitive test which is not a standard part of a physical, but rather something administered when you suspect there’s an issue.
This kind of post is where you lose credibility. By stating the prior administration had no accomplishments, you demonstrate a hyper partisanship that elicits agreement within your political bubble & eye rolls from those not agreeing with you.
Not sure what your nursing experience is but as a long time er nurse, I don’t see obvious dementia/cognitive issues in biden. I also don’t see him being give the montreal cognitive test which is not a standard part of a physical, but rather something administered when you suspect there’s an issue.
Well then, what did they do to:
Improve police/ community relations
Act on Police reform
Deal with the violence that accounts for the death of many black lives (black on black crime) in cities like Chicago (which has also been Dem run for about 50 yrs)
Deal with immigration issues so the blacks are not in competition with immigrants
IMO it doesn't help to just keep blaming the cops and esp when Obama and Biden were in a position to actually change things. Obama had not trouble using the pen did he?
I have been a nurse a very long time and know what I see, not rocket science!!
You keep claiming to prefer facts over bias but then all of your examples are short on fact and heavy on bias.
The "actual ideas", the democratic party platform, you present in your example is a conservative opinion piece from July which gets most of the platform wrong, even though you could have easily found the actual democratic platform.
Even though it's clearly not a reliable source, it seems you chose that one because it says what you want to hear; that the democratic party and Biden supports defunding the police (the platform actually calls for increasing law enforcement funding), that he wants medicare for all (he continues to support a private-insurer based system), etc.
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17 minutes ago, Daisy4RN said:
Well then, what did they do to:
Improve police/ community relations
Act on Police reform
Deal with the violence that accounts for the death of many black lives (black on black crime) in cities like Chicago (which has also been Dem run for about 50 yrs)
Deal with immigration issues so the blacks are not in competition with immigrants
IMO it doesn't help to just keep blaming the cops and esp when Obama and Biden were in a position to actually change things. Obama had not trouble using the pen did he?
I have been a nurse a very long time and know what I see, not rocket science!!
All of this unrest is occurring on Trump's watch. Trump hasn't done anything to improve police community relations...Trump suggested that police should be rougher with citizens in their custody. Trump asked law enforcement to tear gas peaceful protesters so that he could have a photo op...then no one could say who actually gave the orders during congressional oversight.
So blacks are in competition with immigrants in Trump's country? Are white Americans in that competition with immigrants too? Is it a competition for low paying jobs, that won't support a family or provide access to healthcare?
Hm. Trumplandia, the country where people and states compete against each other seeking health and security. May the odds ever be in your favor...
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Trump champions a "law and order" reelection message; VP Pence said last night Americans won't be safe with Biden
Here's VP Biden response, talking with Anderson Cooper about violence in "Donald Trump's America".
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Biden pushed back against that attack, saying he denounced violent protests "a long time ago," adding that there is "no justification whatsoever for violence or looting" because it "takes away from the whole rationale for what is happening here."
Definitely no evidence of dementia or cognitive decline in that interview. Biden stayed on topic, completed his thoughts, and used candid and sincere language. His statements made contextual sense.
The obvious contrast between the two men, in communication alone, is so stark that I wonder how any nurse can look at interviews with the two and then suggest that Biden is the one with issues which should concern us. What kind of assessment and critical thinking is that?
Some people really need to pay more attention to Trump and less attention to what other people say that Trump said or meant or looked or sounded like when he was speaking contemporaneously. The fellow frequently seems to think in fragments with his focus bouncing always back to himself before careening off a tangential thought, belief or feeling.
Yep, nonsense questioning Biden's mental or cognitive abilities is just political propaganda. I wouldn't be surprised if it originated in Russia.
Punctuation & grammar count. Lack thereof lessens your argument & simply makes posts hard to read. And if that’s all you got from my posts, you may wanna take another look at them.
Insulting those who disagree with you is supposed to do what? Will it help change their point of view or will it just drive the wedge further between groups?
Anyway, trump ran in 2016 on a platform of xenophobia that spoke to, what, 40% of voters. That base, coupled with folks who couldn’t stand clinton, allowed him to lose the popular vote yet win the electoral college. Since then, he has done nothing to expand his base. This administration has made fact checking a cottage industry. He has put a lot of conservative judges on the bench, no doubt about that, but what else has he done to make the country better?
Biden was not my first choice, I didn’t want another old white guy. But I see him as a way better choice than trump in terms of empathy & stability. Not to mention his being able to manage the country
On a tangent here - how many folks in the obama/biden administration were convicted of felonies during their 8 years in office? To make it interesting, you can include the clinton & carter administrations.
I actually didn't mind Bill Clinton (minus his sexual discretions) he was a likable guy and compared to his criminal wife, he seems pretty down to earth. Just needed to keep his pants on.
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The problem is too many people are on one side of the spectrum. There is no middle ground anymore. It's either my way or the highway with both political parties. The sooner we realize as a country that our politicians don't care about out well being the better off as a country we will be.